About This Site
Site Tracking
This site uses custom PHP software I wrote to track traffic, after I got fed up with the service WebTrends Live used to provide. The tracking software does not create individual profiles for visitors. It only collects information about your IP address, where you came from, time of visit and the page you visited here.
About Me
This is a personal web
site. The goal is to have information about
me, my professional
interests like Oracle,
web and
GNU/Linux. Since I'm from
Kerala
- known as God's Own Country - which
The National Geographic Magazine
chose as
one of the paradises found
,
I hope to add more information about Kerala
soon.
Design Philosophy
This site does not use frames or Java, and mostly
adhere to W3C
's
HTML4.0 specifications. Javascript used to be there
for the popup summary boxes, to add a little
eye-candy! Graphical elements, apart from cachable
sidebar and icons are used only where it is needed,
like in the photographs
and Gimp sections.
For better viewing of these pages, a resolution of atleast 800x600, browser font size of 10 and Style Sheets capability are recommended. Caution: I had enough troubles with Netscape 4.x, I am not even going to try to make this NS compatible for some time. Use IE5+, Mozilla, or Opera. Or even Netscape 6+!
As far as I can see, this site has been designed with accessibility in mind. However, this site uses some colours that are not web safe.
CSS
is made use of heavily and so are tables. Absolute positioned layers are not
used and nor is it designed for a fixed screen resolution. Philosophy is to design
for a minimum resolution (in this case, 800x600) and also let people with higher
resolution monitors enjoy it, minimizing scrolling for them.
What is the motivation of a redesign? Well, I'm sick and tired of
listening to web consulting firms telling me how a "creative" design
can be done only with rollover images and flash movies (and they still
can't remember to change the page title from "Untitled page"). Every one
wants to layout a page in Photoshop
or Fireworks
and then slice it out
to HTML (without paying much attention to the resulting HTML),
resulting in bandwidth heavy, inaccessible (fixed font sizes,
no speech output possible, non translation-service friendly) and also
with no real compliance to W3C
standards.