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Title: Developing an Ajax-Driven Shopping Cart with PHP and Prototype
Contributor: Jason Gilmore
Description: This tutorial will show you how to build a shopping cart using PHP, session handling, and the Prototype JavaScript library. The cart allows users to add and delete products from the cart, as well as change cart quantities, all without waiting for the page to reload.

Title: Custom JavaScript Dialog Boxes
Contributor: Michael Leigeber
Contributor URL: http://www.leigeber.com/
Description: A lightweight JavaScript dialog box library. The script offers four dialog styles: alerts, warnings, prompts and success. The DIVs are dynamically added to the DOM when the function is called. Easy to implement.

Title: DOM Inspector
Contributor: Mozilla
Contributor URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/
Description: A developer tool used to inspect, browse, and edit the Document Object Model of documents. The DOM hierarchy can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.

Title: DOM Append Text and Element Functions
Contributor: HunBug
Contributor URL: http://www.astral-consultancy.co.uk/
Description: These two functions will append new text or new elements (nodes) to existing elements within the page. Great addition to a JavaScript library. Easily modified.

Title: jQuery slideViewer
Contributor: Gian Carlo Mingati
Contributor URL: http://www.gcmingati.net/wordpress/
Description: A lightweight gallery with smooth animation. Titles can be added to each picture by using the ALT attribute. Easy to style.

Title: Ajax for Tables
Contributor: Jack D Herrington
Description: One strong suit of Ajax is presenting data from the server to users in a dynamic fashion. This tutorial will help you discover several techniques that use Ajax for dynamic data display using tables, tabs, and gliders.

Title: Firebug Lite
Contributor: Joe Hewitt
Contributor URL: http://getfirebug.com/
Description: Use this tool for testing your scripts in browsers other than Firefox. This script can be inserted into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.

Title: Scrolling Text on mouseOver
Contributor: voidvector
Contributor URL: WebDeveloper Forums
Description: This script will scroll text in a box, either left or right, as controlled by the user. It's great for adding a small bit of content to a page, or even some links, when space is limited.

Title: Easy DHTML ToolTips
Contributor: Dave Clark
Contributor URL: http://www.DaveClarkConsulting.com
Description: Provide additional information for your visitors. This script creates tooltips using links, spans and other tags. The CSS style can be set to match your own site. Easy to implement. Heavily commented script.

Title: The JavaScript Chronicles - Data Types
Contributor: Thomas Valentine
Contributor URL: http://www.wdvl.com/
Description: There are a number of different types of data that can be used with JavaScript. Understanding each one is of paramount importance when you begin to write more complex scripts that require the use of more than one type of data.

Title: Animated Popup Elements
Contributor: HunBug
Contributor URL: http://www.astral-consultancy.co.uk/
Description: Bring simple and effective animation to a page by fading your popup elements in and out using this JavaScript function.