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webmonkey · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 9

I hear that AJAX is the new technology to use when it comes to creating dynamic user friendly pages.

I had concerns about it's ability to get indexed on search engines. It is highly multimedia driven and that makes it difficult for spiders to crawl.

If I was going to take on an endeavor like this, it seems that the main traffic that would be driven there would be less organic and more by direct word of mouth and link advertising. Do you think that the tradeoff for a highly graphical and "cool" looking site is enough to make so that I would ignore the web spiders?

Peter2 · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 58

Excuse my ignorance...but what is AJAX?

Is it a WYSIWYG editor?

I'm curious...tell me more.

Cheers

Peter2

telegraph.hill · Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 60 Location: Leeds, England.

AJAX is the great new thing. It stands for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which allows for dynamic, asynchronous behaviour on webpages, without continually having to refresh the page.

gmail/googlemail operates using AJAX, allowing you to do things such as run a spellcheck without having to do a page submit. because the requested operations are handled in JavaScript.

Basically, opening a gmail/googlemail account will give you some idea of the functionality of AJAX - especially when you compare it to something like hotmail.

Peter2 · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 58

Hi,

Thanks for the explanation...

Here I am already using it and I didn't know!!!

That's why I value this forum, I learn something new everyday!

Regards

Peter2

jimmys devoted · Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 56

Dont many make your own webpage sites now employ AJAX inn combination with WYSWIG?

Busterz9 · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Georgia

AJAX is excellent! It can create very nice, fast loading, interactive web pages without the use of Flash. But of course, it cannot do all of the things that Flash does.

AJAX is not a new language, it is simply the use of XML and Javascript.

As mentioned, a flaw to AJAX is that crawlers may have a hard time getting the information it needs. I think AJAX is a great way to spice up a website as long as you don't go overboard with it.

Buster

Subweb · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 10

I have heard AJAX for a long time, but never figured out what it meant til now. And all this time I have been using it and taking it for granted.