5 great places to start learning Ajax

Adaptive Path

This is the site that started it all. Back in 2005, Jesse James Garret wrote this essay explaining a new way to look at interactivity on websites. This article explains the Ajax model so that you can understand what you're trying to do when you're building Ajax sites.

The Ajaxian

The Ajaxian is a great blog with lots of tutorials and information on Ajax. There are tons of tutorials and help, plus lots of fun tricks and things to do with Ajax.

Ajax Projects

Ajax Projects is a site that compiles sites that use Ajax. This is a great way to get ideas for your own site or just find cool Ajax applications.

Ajax Crawler

But what if you want to find widgets or tools you can actually use on your websites. That's where Ajax Crawler comes in. This site compiles lists of Ajax elements and tools you can add to your page or use to build your Web pages.

Ajax Tutorial

Ajax Tutorial doesn't post a lot of entries, but there are some good tips on this blog.

And one more - if you still haven't got enough of Ajax, check out Smashing Magazine's 50 Excellent Ajax Tutorials for more tutorials to learn to use Ajax.