Over at Smashingmagazine.com, they have over 80 useful links to Ajax – based techniques. They were so good we thought we would show them here too, save a few mouse clicks after all. We feel these would be good to keep to hand, so you do not have to go through hundreds of Ajax related bookmarks, so these should come in handy! We hope these prove useful, and we are sure that the techniques on calenders, interactive elements, visual effects, and animations, should keep you busy. Ajax is after all, very propular for RIA’s, and we are sure that many of you enjoy using it, and use it often. We plan to bring you more of this sort of thing in the future, so keep …

Why you should use CSS rather than Tables, in web design. Part 1
Though some web designers believe that Tables are a superior tool to CSS in designing lay out, this opinion is in the minority. Though CSS cannot be used to structure a website in itself, HTML or XHTML, should be used for this, it still should be the tool of choice when it comes to lay out for your website. The download times with CSS are much faster than table lay outs. The reason for this is that when a table downloads, it carries far more amount of junk markup than CSS. This, as you can imagine, creates a much slower download time. A table which comprises of 140 lines of code, roughly equates to cascading style sheet of around 50 lines of code. Additionally, CSS …