"Look at my site!"

I'm often asked to cast a critical eye over websites, and suggest how they can be improved, or 'taken to the next level', as marketing people like to say. Aside from the usual mantra of making sure the content is up to date and the typos have all been found, there's one technical trick that can give a website that extra quality feel.

The trick is 'AJAX'. The term means different things to different people, but in essence it's all about making changes happen on a page when the user does something, without loading a completely new page. For example, if you have a list of popular products on your homepage, you can use AJAX to display a box about each product on that page when the user rolls their mouse over each product. It works for the user as they don't loose track of where they were, and it happens far faster than loading a completely different page.

You can learn more about neatComponents support for AJAX here.