I‘ve done this before and will do it again, this probing of my thoughts to put into words why I must redesign by website. As a site grows in size and complexity, redesigning it, and more specifically re-engineering it beyond the aesthetics, becomes a bigger challenge. So convoluted has my particular challenge seemed, that I […]
Another month another milestone here on Samir Bharadwaj dot Com. This monthly report is a bit special because it makes this blog 6-months old. With milestones comes a natural process of looking back and planning forward. In the last six months I have made many mistakes and learnt a lot of new tricks, so it […]
For the past few months, this blog has resided on the private confines of my ancient laptop during my trip to India, and later on my desktop at home. I was getting all the old blog posts working, and most importantly getting all the functionality of this new site working to my satisfaction. When I […]
My last real post on this blog was more than two years ago (the March calendar post was a page from my static site added here for archival). It was a different time, a different site, and different blogging software. Much has changed and much as happened since then, but I though it was finally […]
It is time to move on. My site has been pretty much unchanged for the last 4 years. Now, finally it is getting a long due overhaul. This blog remains unchanged, content and structure-wise, but at last its look is in sync with the rest of the site. As of now the site has three […]
Having decided previously to maintain the same visual identity as the old site, I decided to start off work on the new splash page. Technically, the splash page is a very minor part of any site, but in practical terms it is a very important step in the web design process. Firstly, it decides what […]
It has been very long since I last posted here, and even longer since I wrote about the great site re-invention project. But beyond laziness and procrastination, there has been another reason for my indecisiveness in this issue. The crux of the matter has been, how much re-invention should this re-invention involve? To answer this […]