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Strictly speaking the Google Ajax libraries don't contain only Ajax libraries, but they are very useful for a variety of reasons. Google host a variety of different JavaScript libraries which you can link to on your pages rather than download the library and host it on your server. You can use MooTools, JQuery, Prototype/Scriptaculous, Dojo and even the Yahoo! User Interface Library.

How To Use Them

Using the Google Ajax libraries on your own site is quite easy, and you can do it in a number of different ways.

The MooTools slider is a good little application, and creates a reliable means of adding in a slider tool to a site. However, one thing that the MooTool slider is missing is a block that covers what is on the left hand side of the slider, before the handle.

Before we go into to how to create the tool, I have created an example of the slider. The colours are deliberately garish in order to show the different elements of the slider.

Rabid Ratings is a neat ratings script written with the Mootools JavaScript framework that makes adding a rating function to any site very easy. The only problem is that when you first install the script it looks like no-one has ever visited your site to leave a rating. To combat this you can create lots of phony data that makes it look like your site is well visited and interesting. One way to do this is by getting lots of people to vote on every rating on the site.

If you are looking for information about the MooTools JavaScript framework then your first stop should be the MooTools home page. The site not only allows you to download MooTools, but it is also a great resource for learning how to use MooTools.

Creating a simple highlight effect is quite easy when you use the JavaScript framework mootools.

The first thing to do is grab the mootools library from the site and link it in your web page. You can select different components with mootools, but if you grab the whole thing you can start to play with whatever you want. Put this line of code in the head section of your web page.