Innovative Website Design

February 8th, 2006 Three high quality free resources (eBooks & website) for learning about design patterns in Java & EJB for your reading pleasure. Design Patterns in Java - A free eBook which extensively covers wide range of design patterns with good examples.

March 22nd, 2009 A Google designer recently quit decrying Google's over-reliance on data, even for simple design decisions. Is it bad or is the designer plain wrong? I think if a design decision can be reduced to a problem solvable by data then it is absolutely the right way to go.

September 21st, 2009 Now you are building up a site logo is the first thing that comes to your mind. Well, designing a logo is no child's play.  The art of logo designing is best known to those expertized in software like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw etc.

June 3rd, 2008 How effective is a site re-design? The final proof is in site traffic. When we started re-designing Taragana.com we had many apprehensions.

July 3rd, 2005 I came across the Giraffe Theme from Urban Design which is unique for several reasons. To my knowledge it is the only theme which comes with an administrative for customizing colors, no of posts and other details: Change colour scheme Change font and font size Change whether to have a full-width lead post, or more traditional two-column layout Change page dimensions Configure number of lead posts, recent posts, random posts, and latest comments Switch logo on or off The theme is innovative in its layout and positioning of content.

July 12th, 2005 I just read a post titled - Java Applets = Stupid Design. The actual contention was - My example would have been web pages that are written entirely as Java applets.

May 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Technologies has set up a virtual innovation centre for testing services on Second Life, the popular virtual world, the IT bellwether said Thursday. The innovation centre, a replica of the original lab at our campus in the electronics city will provide a one-stop virtual view of our Internet Protocol (IP)-powered solutions, the company said in a statement.

September 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.

September 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new software, designed by optical scientists, is likely to revolutionise photography by teaching the camera new tricks. Its performance will then be no longer limited by the software pre-installed by the manufacturer.

April 29th, 2009 Designing for web requires extensive knowledge of the different web designing tools and techniques. To be an accomplished web designer it takes fluency in various software and markup languages involved in web designing.

February 4th, 2006 Sun Microsystem (SUNW) is down in many sense of the word. The billion dollar question is whether it can come back again.

September 27th, 2006 Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: "XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design.

July 5th, 2005 Pheedo, Ad Publishing Network, appears to be down. The website is still up and you can login.

February 26th, 2008 March 3rd is our D-Day. We will launch a new version of our corporate website.

March 3rd, 2008 Our website ( taragana.com ) needs to continuously adapt to our growing business. The old website was based on Joomla CMS, which despite its strength, was pretty hard to easily customize for our complex needs.