Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or AJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications. AJAX can make it easier for you to meet the expectations of your website user. AJAX simply makes it easier for others to navigate through your site. For example, let us say that you have a website and this site contains lots of information and highly technical terms, the person who is viewing your website may be lost wondering that the meaning of the terms could be. Eager to resolve this concern and make things easier for the users of your website, you find a way for your site visitors to not have hard time guessing and finding out what the information means. You think of a solution that will provide immediate answers to any concerns and questions the users may have.

In the past, the way of handling this kind of problem is that, from the example used, the technical terms and other hard to understand terms and information on your site have available links and buttons. Once the user’s mouse cursor hits on these buttons and links, a guide window with the necessary information will pop up, answering most questions your website visitor may have. However, this solution has been proven in the past to be time consuming and a little not so easy to manage. The user has to click on the link, wait for seconds (or minutes depending on the server connection) for the window to appear and then after reading, click the mouse button once more and close the window. With AJAX, things can be a lot a lot simpler and easier.

Using tooltips that can display help on AJAX based websites; it is possible that the moment the mouse pointer it above the term or information that needs further explanation, the guide or explanation window will appear immediately, almost in split seconds. And once the mouse moves away on a different direction, the window simply disappears. You as a website user, which will you prefer? I am most certain that the AJAX way with guide windows will win with a landslide victory.

If you are a website developer and you are think that using tooltips making your website AJAX based will cause a big impact on your web pages, you may want to think again. This AJAX feature will not affect the size of your web pages. Further, this method, the use of tooltips making your website AJAX based, is rapidly becoming more popular. It used on news portals, entertainment portals, banking websites, and many more.

Right now, there is an easy and simply way to make Joomla AJAX enabled. You can specify any link found in the document or script and make this link an AJAX link. IF you try to click on this tooltip in the content of the script in the main body, it will fade out fast and in a new content in the made body will fade in. The transition is done fast and smoothly.

As they say, one always has to know the time has come to bring something to end. Letting go is necessary because if we insist on staying longer than the needed time, we may miss the meaning of being on the next level, the next stage. Needless to say, one has to know if it really the time to move on from Joomla 1.0 and proceed to Joomla 1.5. I am sure most people out there have a lot of questions on their minds: Why should I use Joomla 1.5? What does it offer me that I version 1.0 can not provide? For the time being, this article will give you some answers.

After platform comparison, some users think that it is still early to launch Joomla 1.5. To make it easier, let us compare the two platforms based on categories. If you are after many plug-ins and hassle free use (stability and less bugs), then you may agree when some think that being new, Joomla 1.5, there are still a few bugs and the stability of this version is always in doubt. As for Joomla 1.0, being around for a longer period of time features more plug-ins and templates one can choose from.

When it comes to users, studies and recent surveys show that many end users (personal web creators, those making the website for themselves) prefer to work with Joomla 1.0. However, may developers use version 1.5. Developers who work with many outside or third party extensions may find it easier to work with the 1.5 version. If you are a developer and you the website you are making needs a lot of third party extensions, then Joomla 1.5 may work better for you.

Being an updated version, Joomla 1.5 offers some features that may not be found in the 1.0 version. For example, Joomla 1.5 allows you to preview what your website looks like after making some changers. You do not anymore need to save it then view. Aside from the quick and easy preview button available, version 1.5 has a better menu that allows you to do what you want to do with lesser mouse clicks. Joomla 1.5 also improved on the user interface that allows you to manage media files (songs, videos) better, You can upload man files all at one time and the thumbnail feature give you a detail view of the file you are uploading. On top of this, Open ID and LDAP are supported in Joomla 1.5. You now have more option rather than your user account (which is the case in Joomla 1.0). Company intranet websites will find it a lot easier to work with Joomla 1.5 since existing user accounts can be used for new Joomla websites.

Indeed, Joomla is one of the most impressive content management systems you find today. It even continued to make things easier by coming up with an updated platform, Joomla 1.5. A number of useful and important improvements have been made and added to make the already magnificent Joomla 1.0 better for all of us.

If you have a Joomla website and you are reading this, then you want to enhance your site using templates that are query based. This can be done easily using themes club, ajax applications, and other sites that help in making your Joomla better and more user friendly.

Themes Club is website that offers ready made and custom made templates for your Joomla site. It can help you with the stuff you need to get your Joomla site up and running. With the use of the Joomla Content Management System, an accessibility report of your web content can be produced and can be submitted for checking and verification. For example, if you have just created your C508 Joomla template, this will appear on your verification checklist and a report will be processed and generated.

Aside from Themes Club, there is also the Joomla Content Management System that allows site developers to construct and make inventive and creative applications. These applications can range from those that are made to serve company purposes and even personal leisure.

This Joomla package can be easily installed to almost any computer and once installed; it can be used and is already ready in a span of only a few minutes. Many website developers consider this as a big help in making things easier. They enjoy more and easier access to programming codes which in turn they can change and modify to suit their needs, such as programs for several business and company websites, community-based and entertainment portals, and search sites where users can locate and access information and answers to a number of queries and concerns.

On the other hand, Ajax presents several advantages that can be used to enhance your Joomla website. With Ajax, your site visitors will have better experience while going through and browsing your web pages. Without even hitting the refresh button or pressing F5, web applications will take affect quickly. Also, with Ajax, by simply exchanging only the needed date with your server, Ajax can save its share of bandwidth and therefore boost the speed of the application. This in turn will result to better performance and better enjoyment for your site users. There are a number of examples of the many web applications that can be made possible thru the use of Ajax. Famous examples of these Ajax web applications include Gmail and Google Maps. Also, the frameworks made by Ajax are available and comes in a range of broad solutions which offers client and server components to light-weight client template libraries that can really help in working with JavaScript and other query based templates.

Also, currently there are external and third party extension packages that can be bought separately that can be useful to a Joomla software program. These extensions, such as Content Management System are created based from the framework patterned to tailor fit Joomla sites and lets website creators to modify and change applications to enhance query based templates to satisfy their own needs. Joomla sites even allow easy download of the external applications.