I reckon AJAX is huge and definitely something that you MUST know. The possibilities are endless :) I started off with jQuery and I’d recommend learning it through jQuery as well
$.get('page.php',{id: 1},function(data){
alert(data);
});
Boo ya:) Once you’ve had a crack with AJAX, have a crack with JSON as well… same sort of thing really but a little different syntax and returns something different
$.getJSON('page.php',{id: 1},function(data){
alert(data.name);
});