Beginning Ajax

Using proven examples and explaining concepts step by step, this book shows you how building Ajax-enabled sites and applications allows more interactive user interfaces than ever before. You’ll learn about the differences in capabilities between client-side and server-side development techniques, as well as how Ajax crosses this boundary. You’ll also discover how Ajax techniques can be summed up by patterns (which are development models that you’ll use repeatedly). With a mastery of these techniques, you’ll be able to breathe new life into your Web sites. Shows how Visio gives users the power not just to draw shapes, but to diagram the ways the objects represented by the shapes relate to each other. Explains how to integrate Visio drawings with other applications and customize stencils, templates, and shapes. Reviews the various Visio uses for office productivity (drawings, charts, flowcharts, business processes, project management), in IT (databases, UML, software development, network diagrams), and in architecture and engineering

Whether you're designing a network, a business plan, or an office building, Visio 2007 can transform your vision into sophisticated diagrams and drawings and this comprehensive reference shows you how. You'll discover how to use Visio for IT, architecture, engineering, and business projects; explore the new features of Visio 2007; learn to publish Visio diagrams to the Web; and much more. If you want to develop your skills in Visio, this is the book you need to succeed.