// do ajax request
        function makeAjaxRequest(DoThis, DivName) {
        
        var http_request = false;

        if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
            http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
            if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
                http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
                // See note below about this line
            }
        } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
            try {
                http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {
                try {
                    http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
                } catch (e) {}
            }
        }

        if (!http_request) {
            alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
            return false;
        }
        http_request.onreadystatechange = function() { returnAjax(http_request, DivName, DoThis); };
        
        http_request.open('GET', encodeURI(DoThis + '&random=' + Math.random()*1000000), true);
        http_request.send(null);
        
    }

    function returnAjax(http_request, DivName, DoThis) 
    {

        if (http_request.readyState == 4) 
        {
            if (http_request.status == 200) 
            {
				var sHTML = http_request.responseText;

				var d = returnObjById(DivName);
				
				//alert(d.innerHTML);
				if (d.value == null) {
				
				    if (sHTML.toString().indexOf("!#%!#%") > -1)
				    {
				        sHTML = sHTML.substring(sHTML.toString().indexOf("!#%!#%")+6);
				    }
				    d.innerHTML = sHTML;

				    if (DoThis.toString().indexOf("ajax_own_news_microblogg.aspx") != -1) { miniDiv1 = 1; }
				    if (DoThis.toString().indexOf("ajax_own_news_blogg.aspx") != -1) { miniDiv2 = 1; }
				    if (DoThis.toString().indexOf("ajax_own_news_pictures.aspx") != -1) { miniDiv3 = 1; }
				}
				else {
				    //alert(sHTML.indexOf("qhttp://"));
				    //alert("set");

				    d.value = (sHTML.substring(sHTML.indexOf("qhttp://") + 1, sHTML.indexOf("&page=") + 8));
				}
				//
	        }
	    }
    }         


            
            function switchMenu(menuID)
            {
             

            if( document.getElementById ) // this is the way the standards work
            {
                document.getElementById('menuC').style.display='none';
                document.getElementById('menuS').style.display='none';
                document.getElementById('menuM').style.display='none';
                setTimeout("document.getElementById('" + menuID + "').style.display='';",200);
                
                document.getElementById('TDm').style.backgroundImage="url('menu/magazine_g.gif')";
                document.getElementById('TDs').style.backgroundImage="url('menu/spotlight_g.gif')";
                document.getElementById('TDc').style.backgroundImage="url('menu/community_g.gif')";
                
                document.getElementById("TD" + menuID.replace('menu','').toLowerCase()).style.backgroundImage="url('menu/"+menuID.replace('menu','').toLowerCase().replace('m','magazine').replace('s','spotlight').replace('c','community')+"_y.gif')";
            }
            else if( document.all ) // this is the way old msie versions work
            {
                document.all['menuC'].style.display='none';
                document.all['menuS'].style.display='none';
                document.all['menuM'].style.display='none';
                document.all[menuID].style.display='';
                
                document.all['TDm'].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/magazine_g.gif')";
                document.all['TDs'].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/spotlight_g.gif')";
                document.all['TDc'].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/community_g.gif')";
                
                document.all["TD" + menuID.replace('menu','').toLowerCase()].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/"+menuID.replace('menu','').toLowerCase().replace('m','magazine').replace('s','spotlight').replace('c','community')+"_y.gif')";
            }
            else if( document.layers ) // this is the way nn4 works
            {
                document.layers['menuC'].style.display='none';
                document.layers['menuS'].style.display='none';
                document.layers['menuM'].style.display='none';
                document.layers[menuID].style.display='';
                
                document.layers['TDm'].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/magazine_g.gif')";
                document.layers['TDs'].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/spotlight_g.gif')";
                document.layers['TDc'].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/community_g.gif')";
                
                document.layers["TD" + menuID.replace('menu','').toLowerCase()].style.backgroundImage="url('menu/"+menuID.replace('menu','').toLowerCase().replace('m','magazine').replace('s','spotlight').replace('c','community')+"_y.gif')";
            }

            }