Girish Gangadharan

Showcased!

// August 26th, 2006 // No Comments » // Fun, Miscellaneous

Thanks to cssmania, morethan2cents has been
showcased for the first time in history. Yay!

Yet another redesign

// August 22nd, 2006 // No Comments » // Fun, Miscellaneous

Once again, it is not completely done. I still need to add a couple of things like “tech tips” and “what the ?” to the home page. But it is already cluttered and can’t find enough room to fit in those sections. I’ll get to it by this weekend.

By the way, recently my buddy Luis redesigned his site and got it all done, up and running in 3 days. Looked pretty cool to me until i got this email from a user that used the contact form on my site to send me this message. Here it is.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:18 PM

To:[email protected]

Subject: Girish Gangadharan – More than 2 cents > Inquiry

Name: John Ryan

Email: [email protected]

Message: I like your site but you should take lessons from the master at www.luisgarcia.com. His site rocks.

John

If you haven’t figured out by now, it was Luis the Great (alias – John Ryan) that sent that email to me about his own site(Luis, you shameless cheap ass bastard – your site doesn’t even validate sucker!).

We both were planning to re-do our sites and he beat me to it. He is a smart front-end developer. At least he used to be. Now he’s a project manager at Geniant.

Anyways…Let me know what you think about it. Constructive criticism and comments that help are most welcome.

New videos section

// June 1st, 2006 // No Comments » // Fun, Personal

A long time back i had uploaded a couple of videos of Mia right when Google had just released their videos program. Recently i added a few more to that list and was wondering if i could actually embed those videos on my site. I knew YouTube let you do it. Turns out that Google also offers that feature. Pretty cool.

So for starters, check out these videos of my nieces. I’m gonna embed a few more videos here later. Stay tuned…

Observing a pattern in textpattern

// May 21st, 2006 // No Comments » // Fun, Textpattern

I must admit it is a lot of fun setting up a site using textpattern. Especially when it is on a windows box and apparently, you need to install PHP and MySql before you install any php based CMS like textpattern or wordpress. Trust me. It is NOT fun at all. Convincing Windows Server 2003 that PHP is not all that harmful is a pain in the butt. But heyy…i learnt so much in the process which is awesome (as long as i don’t forget it, which i will pretty soon – all credit goes to my selective amnesia. God…not again!).

Anyways…after a lot of procrastination, i finally decide to work on my site. For those who don’t know me that well, i already had a website that i had to pull down, out of sheer embarassment after i saw my colleague Jared’s site cuz mine looked like crap! Seems like he’s changed it at least twice since the original design based on which i took mine down. Not sure if i like it though. Oh well! He seems to like it and guess that’s all that matters. Jared’s online presence is referred to as “F***ing awesome” on Garrett’s site.

Here’s Luis’s joint which was built on textpattern too just as with Garrett and Jared. He said he’d help me set mine up. Hopefully when mine is done, i don’t have to take it down for at least another year. So far so good…