Archive for May, 2007

Podcast #3 – All About AJAX

May 31, 2007

You have probably heard about AJAX. Maybe you know what it is and have actually used it. Great! If you have not, then listen to my podcast about why you should.

In this episode of News For Web Designers, I discuss:

  • What exactly is AJAX???
  • the advantages of AJAX
  • its ease of use and coding techniques
  • its benefits
  • its applications and uses
  • some places on the web (MY favorite places) where you can go to learn it easily and for free
  • some of AJAX’s role in simplifying ASP.NET server controls

http://media.switchpod.com/users/hotwebideas/ajax.mp3

Podcast #1: MS Visual Web Developer 2005 Express

May 8, 2007

On this episode of the podcast I will give you the best features of Visual Web Developer 2005 Express. We will just say VWDE for short. This product is distributed by Microsoft. Hmm! Does that make it direct competition with Microsoft’s Front Page? For those of you using Front Page, I will clear up the differences between the two and why you would want to use Frontpage or VWDE. Also, what languages does VWDE support as opposed to Front Page? When I speak with most web designers, Dreamweaver still beats Frontpage hands down, but how does it compare to VWDE? And for the web developers who like to hand code with Edit Plus, BBEdit, or Notepad, how does it support handcoded popular web development languages such as HTML, XML, and .NET?

Listen to this podcast as I discuss all this on News For Web Developers.