Everyone likes Web 2.0. Wait, everyone except Jakob Nielsen. As I was saying, most people like Web 2.0. Here are some resources that you may find useful. CSS is the designer’s tool of choice for, well…designing, so obviously it can’t hurt to pick up a few new CSS tricks. AJAX has quickly taken the web by storm. Sites all over the place are using it to improve usability…and for pointless reasons as well. There are plenty of practical applications for AJAX, so obviosuly it’s worth seeing what others are doing with it. CSS and AJAX are two of the most important technologies making Web 2.0 (who came up with that term anyway?) possible. Ready for the list? Here it comes!

AJAX

• AJAX Poller
• AJAX IM
• AJAX Star Rating System
• ClickHeat
• Dynamic Drive AJAX Tab Content Script
• DD Dynamic AJAX Content
• RSS Ticker (more DHTML than AJAX)
• AJAX Dictionary Tooltips
• Max Kiesler’s Roundup of 30 AJAX Tutorials
• AJAX @ DHTMLSite.com
• AJAX Magazine
• AJAX Made Easy (a Tutorial)
• W3Schools AJAX Tutorial
• Spotlight-like Search-As-You-Type

CSS

• CSS @ Smashing Magazine (be smashed with an amazing amount of CSS info)
• CSS Equal Height Columns
• How to Create an Animated, Sliding, Collapsible DIV
• 71 CSS Menus
• Fancy Menu
• CSS Slicing Guide - Learn to slice CSS layouts (give this URL to newbies!
• CSS Positioning Demystified
• CSS Elite Web Design Gallery (For inspiration)
• CSS Tab Designer Tool
• Dynamic Drive CSS Library
• CSS Reset - Remove browser defaults
• Cornershop Rounded Corners
• CSS.Maxdesign - These guys are obsessed with list elements…
• 53 CSS Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
• 101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness