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Choosing Fixed Layout Over Fluid Layout

December 12th, 2007 / 2 Comments »

I had been using fluid designs over a couple of months until the big screens came into picture. The fluid designs became so drastically different on those big screens that I found all my imagined design going down the drain. The web site rendered itself in such an ugly manner that it came down to […]

5 Rules For A Good Web Design

December 10th, 2007 / 25 Comments »

Designing a theme or a website can be a nightmare if done in a haste. I am currently trying to develop a good theme for Techtracer and found out that designing is typing in some HTML and CSS to bring out what you are visualizing. Web Design should follow some rules and it requires proper […]

Hilarious Web 2.0 Song

December 6th, 2007 / No Comments »

I came across a song on Web 2.0 today titled “Here Comes Another Bubble“. It’s absolutely hilarious. It makes a rather sarcastic remark on the recent surge in the number of social networks, blogs, startups etc springing up in every nook and corner of the web today. If you remember, the first bubble was the […]

Google Experiments are Brilliant

December 3rd, 2007 / 2 Comments »

Google Experimental Labs has a few impressive techniques which could enhance your search experience in Google. The experiments are intended to refine your search results which I think will be added to the Google Advanced Search techniques. The experiments which I liked were:
Timeline Search
If you want to search the chronology of certain events then […]

NASA adopts Ajax, Launches NASA 5.0

December 1st, 2007 / 1 Comment »

NASA has used Ajax to redesign its website for celebrating their 50th anniversary next year. More specifically speaking it makes use of Script.aculo.us and Prototype Ajax frameworks. There are numerous features which would give you a feel of presence of Ajax, the best of which is their image gallery.

The Accordian, the tree based navigation, calender […]

ShopWiki - The New Generation of Shopping

November 29th, 2007 / 1 Comment »

ShopWiki is a unique site which lets you get information about a wide range of products for purchasing. And currently it has covered a massive range of about 3 billion products. ShopWiki combines the need of knowledge of products with the ability to search the desirable products from the wide varieties. It provides all the […]

Minesweeper - Back with a Bang

November 28th, 2007 / No Comments »

If I asked you “What were the first few things you did when you purchased your first computer?”. I bet a majority of the answers would be open up the Programs menu and scramble for Games list. Then enjoy the most loved and sweet games such as Solitaire, Minesweeper, Spider, Pinball or Hearts. I have […]