A completely new backend database, rewrote from scratch, why is this important? A year ago when I originally designed the original database the needs were different it was strictly a shopping system and quite honestly it had been 4 years since I had worked heavily in database design so I just didn’t do a few things as well as I should. The backend has started to really fold over the last few months because of the extensive modifications we have made to the original shopping system, it now is a shopping, quoting, shipping, note, email system. To say it has been heavily hacked is an understatement. So that is the biggest and most important improvement because without that nothing else really matters. Results? 200% improvement in query speed which of course increases the front end speeds as well.

This is not say there is nothing for the end user….

We have also rewrote EVERY page on the site to be 100% css / html valid code.. yes it is transitionally valid.. maybe next time it will be strict. So that was a very large job especially considering the number of pages (500). While I was making the site better I also decided to try and improve the page structure in terms of making the page flow better for both search engines and text readers.

There was one more huge change that we made… we decided to add sub domains for images, scripts and styles, this effectively boosted the pipes our website could load from 2 (default) to 8. This really comes shinning through on image heavy pages.. we feel it is an important change for the future. The reason this works is because a browser can load information two pipes on each domain and a subdomain counts as a new domain. Nifty huh? Result? Generally about a 33% increase in browsing speed for our customers Today is just the first day of upgrades… (well it actually started yesterday with me working with the Rackspace Technicians to get the subdomains setup perfect on our production server.

Today I will be updating all non-product pages with the new css valid code. Enjoy.

The Careful Upgrade is a post from: Chris Stormer

Prototype

Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
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Rico

Rico provides a very simple interface for registering Ajax request handlers as well as HTML elements or JavaScript objects as Ajax response objects. Multiple elements and/or objects may be updated as the result of one Ajax request.
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MochiKit

MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get things done, fast.
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Dojo Toolkit

Dojo is an Open Source toolkit that allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript. Dojo provides components that let you make your sites more useable, responsive, and functional.
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Bajax

Bajax its a very small and simple javascript library to use Ajax on your pages. independent of programming language. You can put dynamic content using simple commands.
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Behaviour

Separate Structure (xhtml) from Behavior (javascript)
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Solvent

The Solvent is a cross-browser AJAX application toolkit written in JavaScript. The Solvent is provided as modules or as an entire toolkit. The projects focus is to promote robust web applications and enable rapid web development.
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Moo.FX

moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, written with prototype.js.
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WZ_DradDrop

A Cross-browser JavaScript DHTML Library which adds Drag Drop functionality to layers and to any desired image
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WZ_jsGraphics

High Performance JavaScript Vector Graphics Library.
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overLIB

overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websites with small popup information boxes (like tooltips) to help visitors around your website.
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Scriptaculous

Javascript visual effects, togather with prototype.js
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SACK

Simple AJAX Code-Kit
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Sarissa

Sarissa is an ECMAScript library acting as a cross-browser wrapper for native XML APIs. It offers various XML related goodies like Document instantiation, XML loading from URLs or strings, XSLT transformations, XPath queries etc and comes especially handy for people doing what is lately known as “AJAX” development.
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Nifty Corners

A small library for making rounded corners with Javascript.
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dp.SyntaxHighlighter

dp.SyntaxHighlighter is a free JavaScript library for source code syntax highlighting.
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AJAX.NET

Michael Schwarz, a .NET developer in Germany has released the latest version of his Ajax .NET Wrapper. This class library simplifies the use of XMLHttp by providing .NET objects that generate the necessary Javascript code.
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TOXIC

Toxic is an AJAX toolkit, or framework, for creating rich web applications. It handles the tedious and repetetive tasks involved in integrating a client created using html and javascript with a server backend. It enables client side javascript to directly call class methods in PHP5 (or any other suitable language). It also enables the server side PHP to directly call client side javascript functions. Using Toxic you can get rid of much of the tedious work in form intensive rich web applications.
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Plex Toolkit

Open source feature-complete DHTML GUI toolkit and AJAX framework based on a Javascript/DOM implementation of Macromedia’s Flex technology. Uses the almost identical markup language to Flex embedded in ordinary HTML documents for describing the UI. Binding is done with Javascript.
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CPaint

CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit) is a multi-language toolkit that helps web developers design and implement AJAX web applications with ease and flexibility.
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DOM-Drag

DOM-Drag is a lightweight, easy to use, dragging API for modern DHTML browsers.
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Tibet

Enterprise Class AJAX
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Zimbra

Rubust AJAX framework
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qooxdoo

qooxdoo is an advanced open-source javascript based toolkit. qooxdoo continues where simple HTML is not enough anymore. This way qooxdoo can help you to get your rich web application interface done – easier than ever before.
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AJFORM

AJFORM is a JavaScript toolkit which simply submits data from any given form in an HTML page, then sends the data to any specified JavaScript function. AJFORM degrades gracefully in every aspect. In other words, if the browser doesn’t support it, the data will be sent through the form as normal.
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ThyApi

ThyAPI is an api to allow the developement of better user interfaces for web applicaticions, Using javascript and Ajax, it allows a complete visual interface definition using CSS and encapsulates all objects data manipulateion.
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Engine

Engine for Web Applications is an application framework for client-side development and Web applications. It provides an environment in which to develop and run JavaScript components and applications.
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AJAXGear Toolkit

It is a toolkit that allows you to take advantage of the client-side technique known as AJAX. AJAX is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It uses the XMLHttpRequest object to allow a Web browser to make asynchronous call to the Web server without the need to refresh the whole page.
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Interactive Website Framework

A framework for creating highly interactive websites using javascript, css, xml, and html. Includes a custom xml parser for highly readable javascript. Essentially, all the plumbing for making AJAX-based websites, with js-based GUI toolkit.
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RSLite

RSlite is an extremely lightweight implementation of remote scripting which uses cookies. It is very widely browser-compatible (Opera!) but limited to single calls and small amounts of data.
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XHConn

XMLHTTP is a technology with which a developer can access external resources over HTTP from a static web page without ever having to reload the page itself. This library is meant to simplify and unify the code necessary to successfully send and receive simple data via XMLHTTP.
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Taconite

Taconite is a framework that simplifies the creation of Ajax enabled Web applications. It’s a very lightweight framework that automates the tedious tasks related to Ajax development, such as the creation and management of the XMLHttpRequest object and the creation of dynamic content.
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qForms

Great Javascript API for interfacing forms.
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JSPkg

jspkg is a package loader for Javascript, based on pluggable loaders for locating and loading scripts into a client-side Javascript application. It is designed to work best with unobtrusive Javascript libraries, but doesn’t impose any methodology or design on its users.
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Ajaxcaller

AjaxCaller is a thin XMLHttpRequest wrapper used in all the AjaxPatterns demos. The focus is on ease-of-use and full HTTP method support.
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libXmlRequest

The XmlRequest library contains a two public request functions, getXml and postXml, that may be used to send synchronous and asynchronous XML Http requests from Internet Explorer and Mozilla.
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SAJAX

Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Capable of stubbing calls to numerous server-side platforms: ASP/ ColdFusion/ Io/ Lua/ Perl/ PHP/ Python/ Ruby
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Sardalya

A small library for making dynamic HTML programming easy and fun.
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X

One of the best javascript libraries out there.
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AjaxRequest

AjaxRequest is a layer over the XMLHttpRequest functionality which makes the communication between Javascript and the server easier for developers.
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moo.ajax

moo.ajax is a very simple ajax class, to be used with prototype.lite from moo.fx.
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PHP based AJAX Frameworks

AjaxAC

AjaxAC is an open-source framework written in PHP, used to develop/create/generate AJAX applications. The fundamental idea behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is to use the XMLHttpRequest object to change a web page state using background HTTP sub-requests without reloading the entire page.
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XOAD

XOAD, formerly known as NAJAX, is a PHP based AJAX/XAP object oriented framework that allows you to create richer web applications.
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Zephyr

zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement.
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PAJAJ

What is the PAJAJ framework, it stands for (PHP Asynchronous Javascript and JSON). It is a object oriented Ajax framework written in PHP5 for development of event driven PHP web applications.
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Symfony

A PHP 5 Development Framework inspired by Rails. It has integrated database abstraction and support for AJAX. Installation is fairly easy. Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context. This means that you have full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost everything can be customized. To match your enterprise’s development guidelines, symfony is bundled with additional tools helping you to test, debug and document your project.
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XAJAX

xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page.
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PEAR:: HTML_AJAX

Provides PHP and JavaScript libraries for performing AJAX (Communication from JavaScript to your server without reloading the page)
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Flexible AJAX

Flexible Ajax is a handler to combine the remote scripting technology, also known as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), with a php-based backend.
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Javascript libs for Flash:

FlashObject

FlashObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content.
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OSFlash – Flashjs

The Flash JavaScript Integration Kit allows developers to get the best of the Flash and HTML worlds by enabling JavaScript to invoke ActionScript functions, and vice versa.
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AFLAX

A JavaScript Library for Macromedia’s Flash™ Platform. AFLAX is a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developers using this library have access to the full range of Flash features, but without ever touching the Flash IDE.
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ZK

ZK is an AJAX-based solution for developing Web applications in Java. ZK includes an event-driven engine to automate interactivity, and a rich set of XUL-based components.
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jWic

jWic is a java-based development framework for developing dynamic web applications with the convenience and familiarity of ‘rich client’ style programming. The component-based, event-driven programming model makes it easy for developers to quickly create flexible and robust web applications.
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The Ultimate Javascript and Framework Library is a post from: Chris Stormer

Today I have an issue with my wp-sociable plugin on my posts pages, in IE the first graphic represents the:

Internet Explorer 6 Version

Firefox Version

This is today’s big mystery. It seems to me there must be a problem with my .css or my .html

I want it to look like the Firefox Version.

IE CSS Issue Ugh. is a post from: Chris Stormer