In other words, this initial tutorial is meant to help you get up and running in building your first ajax powered Web application. Later we will look at refinement and adding features so that you can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the techniques and mindset required for ajax. In short this tutorial is not meant to be the be all and end all of ajax, rather it is better thought of as development in progress. Though the development in progress in this case has some clear aims and techniques to impart that should hopefully serve you well in future ajax endeavors.

Just before getting into the code, techniques etc, I would just like to advise people that there is no need to attempt to cut and paste code from this tutorial. All files, which include both the image gallery application and this interface you are currently on, plus all examples are provided in a downloadable zip file. You will need to note, that the examples will not run