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The new Dreamweaver CS3 now makes it easy to include AJAX components in your web pages.  Adobe has integrated the SPRY framework into the application.  Past versions of Dreamweaver have had various dynamic elements, but I’ve never really used them.  They never really seemed to be worth the trouble, and created some pretty funky code at times.  But this new implementation using SPRY looks great.  You can easily link to an XML file and display the various elements in the file in various ways.  You can also link different elements.  So, for instance, your XML file might have product name, description and image elements.  In Dreamweaver you can have one area that displays a list of all the products.  In another area you can display the image and description of the specific product you have selected.  Pretty cool.

And I don’t see why this XML feed couldn’t be an RSS feed from my WordPress blog.  Which would allow me to have a HOME page that has AJAX components and give me a lot of control over the way various elements display.  In using WordPress as a CMS I have struggled a bit with how to make the entry page less like a blog.  This could be a really cool way to make that all work.

Adobe Labs - Spry framework for Ajax

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