It all started with a BANG!!.. Naah… it was a slow and steady development of the one of the most important services we use in our modern lives.

All started with a reaction of US against the first satellite shot by Soviet Union, Sputnik, into the space. As a matter of fact, many efforts were thrown into high gears, and one the most comprehensive of them was a new network, initially called Arpanet. (continue reading…)

Original article by Jeffrey Zeldman
You’ve done all the right stuff, but your site doesn’t look or work as it should in the latest browsers.

You’ve written valid XHTML and CSS. You’ve used the W3C standard Document Object Model (DOM) to manipulate dynamic page elements. Yet, in browsers designed to support these very standards, your site is failing. A faulty DOCTYPE is likely to blame.

This little article will provide you with DOCTYPEs that work, and explain the practical, real–world effect of these seemingly abstract tags.

WHY A DOCTYPE?

Per HTML and XHTML standards, a DOCTYPE (short for “document type declaration”) informs the validator which version of (X)HTML you’re using, and must appear at the very top of every web page. DOCTYPEs are a key component of compliant web pages: your markup and CSS won’t validate without them. (continue reading…)

Welcome to my blog…

My name is Ayush Jain. I am a designer & animator.

My location is Hyderabad, India. - where I live and work. The majority of my day consists of sitting at a PC designing, surfing & consuming mass amounts of Internet.

I work full time at a accounting firm and in my spare time I design and try to keep up this blog. Here you’ll find tutorials and tips related to graphics, HTML/CSS, my struggles with JavaScript & jQuery and anything else in that area.

Ayushjain.in :The latest site update has been a long time coming and I think it’s the first that truly reflects me.

From 2005 to about a year ago my plan was to put everything I could under one site. I thought creating something sounding like a business would bring clients in droves. After 2 years, I learned that nothing is more powerful than my personal brand. It was me who was the driver, not some name I created.

With this change I focused more on increasing the value of my personal brand. I have mostly done this with social networking tools like facebook and orkut. I created my profiles, connected with friends, and have been regularly active. Nothing breakthrough and probably something any web professional should do. There was one thing that was missing and that was an updated site to help promote my brand and act as home base for all that I do. (continue reading…)