Want to know about the recent launch of Jaxer, visit http://ajaxian.com/archives/audible-ajax-episode-24-aptana-jaxer-talk.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a keyword for anyone who owns a website. Many find it difficult to make their websites SEO friendly. How to tackle this problem? Simple…design your website using CSS to make it SEO friendly. Let me detail you on the benefits or the advantages of using CSS for SEO purposes.

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The following article gives 10 CSS tips pulled out from the surveys of 12 top designers.

Writing CSS is an art by itself. The following article will help you to create artistic stylesheets. This article also will explain you the basic characteristics of stylesheets.

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Style sheets can make a Web authors life easier. Before style sheets came into existence one has to use the following tag <HR Width=20 PX Size=5 ALIGN=”Center”> every time a user wanted to insert a Horizontal tag. Whereas, style sheets web author needs to use it only once and the same style can be applied wherever necessary. Style sheets allow you to change to appearance and layout of all the HTML pages in your website just by editing one single CSS document.

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There’s history behind all things that exist in the world. We talk to our young ones about our good old days, which is history, am I rite? Similarly, Cascading Style Sheets has a history of its own.
Let me give a brief introduction about Cascading Style Sheets before I tell you about its history. Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language and is very important in web development as they help in describing the presentation of a document that is written in a markup language like HTML, XHTML, XML, SVG and XUL.

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Web 2.0 Goes to Work with Enterprise Mashups: IBM’s Rod Smith on SYS-CON.TV. Visit http://xml.sys-con.com/read/468183.htm to know more about the upcoming projects with companies like American Express, Dunn & Bradstreet, and Dow Jones.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a boon for web designers, why? Let us see the reasons one after the other.

a) Loading of pages is faster: Say for example, you are designing a web page with tables nested inside each page. Will this decrease the download speed or not? Sure…it will. However, in the case of CSS, it is not so as all the styles are in one style sheet.

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How to speed up table rendering in CSS? You can make it fixed or auto.

Visit http://eriwen.com/css/use-the-table-layout-css-property-to-speed-up-table-rendering/  and take advantage of CSS tables.

While I was searching for some citations for a publication that I am currently working on, I came across Michael Wesch’s video blog/entry in Youtube entitled the Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/Ing Us. I would not be interested in it as I have lots of ideas about what Web 2.0 is all about were it not for the remarkable number of views this video has amassed so far—a whopping 4, 702, 959!

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Although there are many advantages of using Ajax technology, but there are as well some disadvantages of using this technology. The primary reason of using the Ajax technology is due to the interface. Because the application using Ajax is operate more like as compared to the standalone program. In the normal pages, end users will have to submit a button if they want to refresh the page. Following are some advantages and disadvantages of using Ajax technology.

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