Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications (Repost)

Supercharge Your Sites with Ajax Right Now…No Scripting Expertise Needed!
You’ve heard how great Ajax is–how it can help make your Web sites more usable, more interactive, more responsive, more successful. Ajax Construction Kit lets you put Ajax to work right now, even if you’ve never written a script! Just learn a few essentials, check out a few examples, then run the live CD and discover all the plug-and-play code you need to hit the ground running. Ajax Construction Kit ’s built-in applications work right out of the box. And with easy guidance from Michael Morrison, you’ll gradually deepen your understanding–learn how to customize, extend, and reuse these applications–-and even build skills for creating new ones. Walk away an expert.

Use Ajax Construction Kit ’s ten complete applications to
Dynamically load Web data
Dynamically populate lists
Tap into RSS news feeds
Use AutoComplete to reduce input errors
Create more responsive GUIs with real-time validation
Build a killer interface for viewing images
Present information or advertising with slick pop-ups
Provide an up-to-the-minute weather forecast
Build an e-commerce product shipping calculator
Add ratings tools to your site
And more…