On the heels of two very successful tutorials on creating a collapsible div and an animated sliding div, I’ve decided to write another. It seems my last few helped a number of programmers learn a simple trick, and hopefully this one will do the same.

Note, I’ve also upgraded to a much newer, faster server, so hopefully the social networking sites won’t “collapse my server” again, as one Digger so eloquently put it. :)

Hearing about AJAX constantly, but never have found time to read a lengthy, frustrating, complex tutorial? In the following post, I’m going to explain how to add AJAX functionality to your website in three easy steps. It’s actually quite simple, and I’m going to try and be clear and to the point, but not over or under-explain anything like most tutorials have a tendency to do.

Before you begin, decide what purpose or additional functionality adding AJAX to your website will accomplish. Will it be a live search feature? Something to save user preferences? In this example, we’re developing a simple calculator. Let’s dive in.