ArghWebWorks

Have you seen AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) Load? Talk about your neat dynamic picture generator. Ajax May Suck, but this is pretty cool.

And I’m not the only one who maintains that Ajax encourages sloppiness.

But if you must ajaxify some pages, make sure you use some sort of indicator to the user that the page is actually processing something. Heck, some web forms actually refresh to a new page, but because of poor database design, they take a long time to do so- you should use a loading graphic on those too. Because not everyone watches the status bar to see “contacting site… waiting for site… still waiting for site… get some coffee this might be a while…”

I’ve written an article on Design Theory; it’s over at Portland Scrapbooking. I don’t see that Webpages and Scrapbook pages are all that different, when it comes to design principles.