WebDirection was founded to make greater and better usage of web technology. This site is dedicated to advanced web technology research and development. The goal is to share practical information and to make open source tools, whitepapers and research materials available thus enabling the evolution of the web into an even more useful tool

The practical focus at this time is a library of AJAX tools for the web. The library is called WebMap and will eventually have tools to facilitate using databases with Google Maps. However the map interface part of the tool kit is still in development. Currently WebMap version 0.5 provides the tools used to construct this site. These include controls for navigation, form validation and asynchronous data transfer.