AjaxWorld Conference & Expo to be held March 19-20, 2007

The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York

Delegates will hear first-hand from the creators, innovators, leaders and early adopters of AJAX. The conference features over 100 sessions and presentations given by 125 different speakers - the largest AJAX-focused speaker faculty ever assembled in one place at one time.

Molecular's Riccardo La Rosa, Prinicipal Consultant, Engineering and Glenn Barnett, Principal Consultant, Engineering will be presenting the session, “Make AJAX Work for Your Site and Your Users – How To Improve Product Selection.”

AJAX changes the way the Web works, bringing exciting new possibilities to Web interfaces. But how do we use AJAX to give users a richer, more powerful interface without sacrificing ease of use? A common way to answer this challenge is to improve product selection for Web users. Web sites can better help users select products, services, or content by implementing a variety of tools. These tools help users find exactly the right item for their needs – quickly and easily. Faceted navigation has lonng been an effective tool to accomplish this challenge, helping users winnow down options. Come see how we applied AJAX to this popular tool in order to create a rich interface on top of faceted navigation – making prooduct selection easier (and more fun). You'll learn that building applications like this requires more than just leveraging JavaScript effects, and how to tackle that issue. We will describe the technical architecture and review all the different libraries we used in building our rich navigation. Also, we'll share what we learned from usability testing that can make any AJAX interface work better. Throughout this case study you will learn the ins and outs of creating a richer navigation application.

For more information on this event or to register, visit the AjaxWorld Conference & Expo web site.