I recently unveiled the website for the upcoming PA Green Party Convention. The design is pretty basic, but I took the opportunity to work on some AJAX stuff. The page is very similar to www.chucksteel.com (I’ll admit that I used a lot of the same code), but I changed some of the backend code to be, hopefully, more efficient.

The only major problem that I’m still experiencing is that I’d like a “Loading…” message to appear while the new content is loaded. There’s a div there which is supposed to become visible, but doesn’t seem to. The rest of the site works, though, and it needed to go online, so…

I wrote a Google module that uses php and AJAX to present the user with the various graphs that are available from their MRTG configuration. The AJAX part comes in when you click the different titles, to load the appropriate graph. I’ll try to make the module available for download soon.

I started playing with Ajax today and reworked the www.chucksteel.com website to use it. I’m most proud of the part where I use the element.GetHeight and effect.MoveBy statements to find the difference in content length and move the footer accordingly.

My biggest problem (in my mind) is that my CSS skills are still pretty weak. I guess everything comes with time and patience.