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The google guys are at it again with the evolution of the news ticker into a AJAX driven fade and display type interface - all using google API

Before I forget or shall I say lose the code – I going to paste this here for reference. While working at my last job I got detailed to create the company website. As part of the brief I had to connect to the PubMed database and lias the data back to my employers site. The problem that I had was trying to integrate the results as seamlessly as possible while also trying to keep the footprint of the visual as compact and fit in with the general look and feel of the site. Here are some of the files that I used for getting the quering the datebase and parsing the results.

Had a rather interesting idea this morning for using jQuery or FLAsh for some novel navigation layouts, not sure how its going to work but I was thinking of using flash to structure the navigation system here for my drupal powered sononix.com. There’s probably been work down in this area but I must find out some more information and post back later. By the way there is a taxonomy XML modules which could come in useful.