Portfolio, now with a splash of Ajax

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd

I just did a little "behind the scenes" work on the portfolio.

Now, if you click a thumbnail for a different site, rather than having the web server send a whole new portfolio page, javascript (if enabled) takes over the request and simply replaces the content on that part of the page. If you have scrolled down further on the page, you'll be jumped back up to the section containing the new information.

This difference? Well almost none for the user. The savings comes in on the web server end. It saves itself quite a bit of processing, not having to query the database server cluster, process the results and then build up the whole page every time someone clicks a different thumbnail.

Thats the point of Ajax. To make the user experience "snappier" and more similar to desktop software, while conserving resources on bandwidth and processing power at the same time. The web server a

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