article thumbnail

Nonprofit Email Design: 20 Tips for More Effective Emails

NetWits

Use of animated gifs, flash, videos, iframes, forms, javascript, AJAX are not recommended. Keep important information and calls to action at the top of the email, often the first 400px, so it displays in the reading pane. Always use inline styling when formatting emails. Avoid large blocks of text.

email 247
article thumbnail

Why Ajax Sucks Most of the Time!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This article, " Why Ajax Sucks " is a spoof article constructed by Chris McEvoy (with apologies to Jakob Nielsen.) " Here's Chris's list of Ajax Mistakes. He is spoofing a 1996 article by Jakob Nielsen called " Why Frames Suck."

AJAX 50
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme.

Drupal 269
article thumbnail

HTMX for Java with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf

InfoWorld

HTMX: A rising star HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. Think of it as a kind of declarative Ajax. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of complexity from the typical web app.

AJAX 77
article thumbnail

What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What makes it usable Newer applications are using AJAX and Flash, to give the kinds of functionalities we’ve come to expect with desktop applications – so it’s just like having a desktop application with our data – except it’s “in the cloud&# not on our desk.

AJAX 134
article thumbnail

3 visions for the future of the Internet

InfoWorld

It also brought forward key technological innovations like Ajax. generally refers to the web that was developed during the early part of this century. This iteration of the web introduced more user-modifiable applications such as social media. applications of today. To read this article in full, please click here

article thumbnail

Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces.

Web 100