[A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail)

Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance.

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[Building a Drag-and-Drop Shopping Cart with AJAX @ SYS-CON BRASIL](http://br.sys-con.com/read/172585.htm)

For this article, we'll create a shopping car that allows us to add items by dragging and dropping them onto an icon of a shopping cart. We'll add AJAX functionality, allowing us to update our shopping cart without redrawing the entire screen.

(tags: [ajax](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/ajax) [shopping+cart](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/shopping+cart) [dragdrop](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/dragdrop))

[Particletree · A Guide to Starting Your Business](http://particletree.com/features/a-guide-to-starting-your-business/)

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