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Here are my ten favourite AJAX scripts! They are not ordered in any specific way because I love them all. Please tell us all about your own favourite AJAX scripts. The more the merrier.

Ajax Tabs Content script
Fetch and display an external page inside a container when a tab is clicked on.

Really Easy Field validation with Prototype
Here’s a form validation script that is very easy to use.

Advanced RSS Ticker
RSS ticker script to display any RSS content on your site in a ticker fashion.

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Solucija.com has a bunch of free XHTML and CSS coded templates that you can use. Last time I checked it was a total of 24 templates. You can see them all over at solucija.com/templates/demo. If you decide to download a template you can find the downloads over at solucija.com/templates/download.

http://www.solucija.com

Here comes two useful CSS design related links. The fist one is to katgal.com that shows you how to change your CSS style based on the time of the day. Katherine manage to do this using a bit of javascript and CSS.

http://www.katgal.com/2007/03/time-sensitive-css-switcher-change.html

The second link is to a site called CSS Tinderbox who offers free but very basic open source CSS/XHTML templates. This is very useful for those that want to learn CSS and XHTML.

The CSS Tinderbox is an effort to support open source web design by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates that web designers and web developers can use as the foundation for their own projects.

http://csstinderbox.raykonline.com

Jeff Atwood from Codinghorror.com has written a really good and useful article regarding your sites or blogs bandwidth usage. He gives you four different ways of reducing your bandwidth:

• Switch to an external image provider.
• Turn on HTTP compression.
• Outsource Your RSS feeds.
• Optimize the size of your JavaScript and CSS

So if your site or blog has bandwidth problems you should read “Reducing Your Website’s Bandwidth Usage” by Jeff Atwood.

If you code websites for handheld devices such as mobile phones here is a pretty interesting online validator for your pages.

Wait, there is more! Here are three very useful sites for mobile websites:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa455233.aspx
This is an overview of the Properties that are available in Cascading Style Sheets. These properties can be spatial, related to an aspect of the document, controlling layout or other such aspects of page design.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa455315.aspx
Internet Explorer Mobile supports the following Wireless Markup Language elements.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa455316.aspx
There are many elements in the XHTML language and many derivatives. This topic is designed to help understand which elements are supported in which derivative and within Internet Explorer Mobile.

This is not anything I recommend you to do on your site or blog. But if you don’t want your site or information to be searched for on Google, Yahoo! etc this is how you do.

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HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS

Maybe you rather prefer to learn XHTML and CSS using online tutorials on the net, but sometimes a helpful and good book can help you understand everything faster. If you are a novice webmaster with limited skills about making websites this is a great book for you. But “HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS” is also a great book if you want to take the step over from ordinary HTML to the standards and to a world of usability and friendly design. XHTML and CSS is the future maybe it’s time to fully learn it?

I used this book when I studied XHTML 1.0 and CSS. It’s a great book with some of the best examples around. Don’t think for a second that it’s just one of those boring books filled with text after text that makes no sense.

The book is written by Elizabeth Castro. If you want you can read a longer description and review about the book over at Amazon.com.

From the article: What Is Ruby On Rails?

You’ve probably heard of Ruby on Rails, which has been generating noise in the web development field over the past year. While buzz and hype are nothing new to our industry, it’s always beneficial to cut through that hype and the jargon to understand what a new technology really is about.

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web development framework that allows you to rapidly develop data-driven applications using the Ruby programming language. By applications I don’t mean software applications such as Photoshop that run on your desktop. Instead, I am referring to web applications such as Basecamp and Flickr. Like a desktop app, a web application solves a problem. For example, Basecamp lets you manage your client projects easily via the web, and Flickr lets you share photos with friends and family effortlessly.

digital-web.com/articles/ruby_on_rails_for_the_rest_of_us

If you’re coding JAVA or you want to code JAVA, Eclipse is a great tool to use. It looks good and it’s really easy to learn. And the best thing, it’s free!

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A rainy and boring wednesday needs some jokes. Here is a pretty funny list:

You know you’re addicted to coding when…

Now laugh.