… also to have a sitemap that is UP-TO-DATE. Generally speaking when we talk about Sitemaps for a website, what comes to mind is a page, mostly static, where you’d have the sitemap laid out like a tree unfolding all the different parts of the website.
This usually is put on a single page so patrons may click through and find their way around easy. Much that this is a very good idea, an even better one is to let Google know you have a sitemap in XML format ( here is mine ) that links all …
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TeamSite is a CMS produced by Interwoven Inc. And an approximate listing says about 1000 clients across the globe use it for pushing content both within the local Intranets and different extranets worldwide. Most sites that talk about Content Management process and architecture like CMSwatch.com, www.cmsmatrix.org and Oscom hold TeamSite in high esteem. But I have always been skeptic about it because I haven’t seen a single site deliver clean, valid code! As a website developer, designer and website consultant I am very pedantic about valid, clean and semantically correct code. But my view about TeamSite changed since David, Ruth and I started working on building a Template for a website.
Thank you all who came to the Tupperware party. It was great to see you all and we did have a fun afternoon. Thank you all also for the lovely nibbles that you got and a big thank you to DS for keeping the kitchen going so smooth when we were all having fun.
At some stage Claudia would have mentioned to you how very much I really like the Antarctica set and on doing the math post our party I did qualify for one. Yay! 
I am really happy about that and a big thanks to you all. Of course now that I’ll have the Antarctica set with me soon I’m starting to feel the need for some pantry organisation. And nothing organises your pantry better than those versatile Modular Mates… the cranberry lids do look nice. I bought myself the Cool Cubes, On the go set with a sports bottle, the lime/orange squeezer. Looking forward to my delivery. What did you get?
At all times spam is the lowest from of life on earth and perhaps the universe. But there is a good side to it as well.
From: kimberley
Subject: Karmakars.com
Date: 21 June 2007, 2:49:06 PM
To: Amit Karmakar
kimberley wrote:
i love your site. will you marry me? bye. xxx
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IP: 10.42.89.93
I have been reading a lot of good things about Segment Publishing lately. I got great recommendations from Hicksdesign, Maniacalrage, Zeldman, Waferbaby and then decided to investigate further. I also realised that Waferbaby and Segment are brothers well that would explain Waferbaby’s bandwidth fetish 
I was sent a Mircosoft Word document with 12 pages of information to go out on a website. Normally I don’t print unless I really really need to but I did this time.
The file printed almost successfully, in 13 pages all up and at the bottom of the 13th page, the page counter in the footer of the document read:
Page 13 of 12
Gotta love Microsoft! Life on Earth would perish otherwise.
The mind boggles…
You guessed it, the indibloggies 2005 nominations are up. If you like what I do, do vote for my site. As you’ve heard me say many times before — ‘Content is king‘ and hence my focus on information, usability and again information. Who knows one day all of that might change and I might go foot loose and fancy free.
We have had an awesome holiday in Tasmania during Christmas and New Year. I have shot about 6 GB worth of images in the 10 days! Can’t wait to put some of them up on my site. I am also going to develop a small website with the images and some information on Tasmania. Hopefully it would be ready by the end of the month. Little did we know we’d travel 2,760 Kms there in such a short time. Its amazing how a good holiday can rejuvinate our spirit within!
They went with songs to battle,
They were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye
Steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end
against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall not grow old,
as we who are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
Just wanted to say thank you. It takes courage to be this open and honest about ones own self and acknowledge others especially strangers. Thank you for your kind email.
Hi Friend
I just finished exploring your website and I have to say that it is clear that there is a lot of talent behind the designs that you create.
Having read the entry at Elise’s blog I headed over to download Cocoa and connected to my database, it was so easy to use and blazing fast! You wouldn’t want to connect to mySQL through a browser page ever again if you have had a taste of CocoaMySQL.
The first noticable change: reduced spam by about 80%. No operational glitches (which is indicative of a very smooth operation). Everything works just as it was in the previous hosting company. Ditto! I want the world to know what a tremendous helpful person Jeremy Bogan is. Without his very skilled help this move would have been longer and patchy. Thank you again Jeremy and I really appreciate it. I am just blown away from the service Segment Publishing offers. Not just a couple of times but everytime! Just to ease the operation, if I ran into problems, Jeremy even came up on iChat to help me of his own free will. MT, static files, database everything is working fine.
30th October 2003! This will go down in history! I finally got my weblog working! While I burn the midnight oil to re-skin my website do visit my blogs and Photo Gallery feel free to stop by and link mine from yours! Also have booked our tickets to Tasmania, and we we’re quite excited to say the least. Christmas is not all that far away is it? Well, I certainly hope not. More about this when I have completed setting up the weblog fully well. So… stay tuned!
My friend and colleague John, has for sometime now been wanting to put his dad’s paintings online. John’s dad John as well, now lives in Queensland and has been painting for a few decades and has achieved some local Australian and international recognition for his work of art. His work has been held in private and company collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, United Stated of America, England and Switzerland. You can read more about John’s achievements and accolades on his exhibitions page.
Adrian, Richard, David and I went down to the Rose Seidler House which was built between 1948 and 1950. It is one of the most uncompromising modernist houses in Australia. Nestled in natural bushland of Ku-Ring-Gai Chase, with great view from its glass walls and sun filled deck. We took a few photos around the place. Considering this house was designed and built in 1948 it is very modern and extremely well lit. If you visit Sydney and have similar interests I’d recommend visiting the Rose Seidler House.
Check out the latest happenings at WE05 on our flickr group.
Listen to podCasts of each session soon after they are done at WE05 website or Odeo
Track what blogs are saying about WE05 via technorati, and make sure you tag your blog posts like this
WE05.
The Home of the Mustangs, the lovely Maysville Elementary folks have had a rejig of their website. I had designed their site about two and a half years back. Though the design essentially remains the same I’ve added some functionality and removed parts of the website that had becomes obsolete. Not only does Maysville as an Elementary school stand out of the crowd, they are backed by people who are passionate, teachers who go beyond their call of duty, students and patrons that blog and podcast and their thirst for knowledge! Though my visit to North Carolina last month was only for one short week, it was the one that made me feel at home and in the company of lovely friends and warm hearted people.
Luke Ritchie, the Managing Editor of Schmap Guides wrote me a couple of days back asking if I’d allow him to publish six of your photos of Sydney that have been short-listed for inclusion in the third edition of his Schmap Sydney Guide. I’ve received confirmation that they have made it in this months Schmap Guides. Link through for the pics below.
- Rose Seidler House — related info
- Rose Seidler House — related info
- Darling Harbour and Haymarket
- Blu Horizon Bar — related info
- St. George OpenAir Cinema
- Borders — related info and very recently
- Mekong River Restaurant Austin Texas, USA
If you like the guide and have a website, blog you might also like to check out the schmapplets – customizable widgetized versions of the Schmap Sydney Guide.
Its Firefox party time again. Can a browser really make the Web better? Try Firefox and see for yourself. Learn more. If you want to get a quick update on whats new in Firefox 3.
- Download your copy and install in case you haven’t.
- Once installed, follow these instructions from Mikelao Photography to set your colour management to True(in case it is Flase)
- Colour management plug in can be downloaded from Sean Hayes website
- Once you have done the above steps confirm its all good by visiting the International Color Consortium.
Firefox away!
Update: If you wish to run both Firefox 2 and 3 simultaneously from your Mac or windows. And in case you want to enable kerning here is hope. If you’re unsure what Kerning is, read up at Wikipedia.
Have you heard of PicLens? if not, this will really make your day! Its a simple way to enjoy your digital media that is images and videos right on your desktop in such a way that you’re not tied down to viewing it within the scope of the browser window. Its clickless browsing, with interactive previews at your finger tips. And most of all its a great way to view media on a big screen… and oh so suave
Not convinced? Watch the Demo here.
Download Piclens from Cooliris and give it a whirl. You won’t be disappointed.
Do you believe in Luck? Well, I don’t but I don’t mind if you do, although I have sometimes found myself using phrases like…. “you lucky thing”, “Oh so lucky!” But they are merely expressions of half-hearted self-centred joyfulness. I neither believe in luck, yeah I said that a second time nor do I advocate anyone reading this… so you are on your own if you read this on Friday the 13th and a missile goes through you head and you die and land in Hell in Devil’s bedroom lying naked next to his warm skin on his fur bed surrounded by the fires of Hell and Devil’s slippery green mossy tail hissing over in slow meandering manouvers over your face? Chances are you’ll never come back to planet Earth to design a Web Standards compliant website nor talk of Web Accessibility or bitch and moan about the shitful IE or even take the micky out of ya mates on Flickr, what a shame — but then you would have Devil’s undivided attention wouldn’t you just and I’m sure he’ll keep you entertained!
While checking my logs on Sunday I came across a rather unusual incident and no it wasn’t a very pleasant one. http://www.hotbook.com.br had generated some traffic onto my site so I was curious to know what it was that brought people to karmakars.com.
On further investigation I found that someone over in Brazil presumably by the name Marcio Sgreccia> has copied my layout, blog text, graphics, CSS including old banner, well almost everything possible of the front page!!
I just got mail and am all too excited to share it with you…
…we have seen some amazing monuments from mosques and Hindu and Jain temples to the unforgettable Taj Mahal as well as the narrow alleys of old Delhi including a spice market. Tomorrow we head to a national park to try to spot some tigers — apparently quite rare to see…
UPDATE: 8th January 2007 What happened to winter on the Northern Hemisphere in December 2006 and summer in Australia? Is this proof enough? There are simple things you can do to make a huge change. Try these very easy 10 things (PDF, size: 1MB)
Based on the climate pattern changes that are occuring lately An Inconvenient Truth is a masterpiece. Film directed by Davis Guggenheim, featuring Al Gore, is a eye opener. Based on years of study, scientific calculation from data collected across the globe, endeavouring scientific knowledge, accurate understanding of climate change and photographic proof from Earth and space (outside Earth’s atmosphere) …An Inconvenient Truth offer raw, biting truth of how we can choke ourselves in rising smog quite possibly just over a decade from now if we didn’t start acting on issues today. We are in fact very rapidly reaching a tipping point. A point of no return 
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When I had hand rolled my entire design for Karmakars.com, though simple sans flickr, del.icio.us and all those moronic buzz, it was nice and I was proud of it. I really was. No matter what one may think and how much ease a blog/website template or theme may provide, it is one sure way to kill originality. It lacks one big thing. It lacks you. Look around the web-o-sphere, notice how many people use K2 and Hemingway, and many such similar derivations of these themes. And nothing wrong with that, BUT this in my opinion probably isn’t the best choice for a professional web-designer, developer.
Up until Sunday the 1st of June 2008 I truly was a Tupperware Virgin. I knew what they meant and had heard good reviews from Tupperware converts and people that used them but never ever held one in my hand or knew what they could possibly do and what life changing experiences they could bring about! It was nice of Adrian & Richard to invite us over for a lovely Tupperware party. Great experience and need I say that I learnt a few things. Having had done practically no research at all I was under the impression that I would find something nice to buy under $20.00 well! That was about to change soon! Although David had dropped in a hint to say they are not really your average run of the mill plastic. Yet I landed up buying a bit even for my first experience. The stuff is really good! Trust me Or maybe I’m easily convinced. But I’d like to think the former!
Can one love a song this bad? Heres proof! And having looked high and low and asked friends who didn’t have the lyrics that refered me right back to google again (thanks! LOL) I decided I’d do it myself… Strange that Chillout Session website provides all the music info you need but not the lyrics!! The number that I SO LOVE is — ‘Growing On Me‘ by Taurine from Chillout Sessions 5, CD number 2, track number 15. Have a listen (low quality i must warn you).
Here’s the lyrics I figured… if there is something missing do tell. And if you love this song as much as I do lets meet up we will have a blast
Pink Martini has hit our soft spot since the time we’ve been listening to them. China Forbes(Vocals) and Thomas M. Lauderdale’s(Pianist) multi-cultural families and upbringing brings forth a unique touch to their music. Having learnt many languages and music in different parts of the world also gives them an edge of immense multiculturalism. We knew most of the songs that were played but it was good to hear the background behind them all and what encouraged them to write or compose the tune. I love the Hang on little tomato song, such a song of hope and dulcet sound of La Soledad (the solitude). Music truly transcends cultures, languages, all barriers…
D had found this amazingly cute place when we were doing our research on India and particularly Delhi, Its called The Delhi Manor. Its looked gorgeous from the website. We tried our level best to stay there when in Delhi but for some reason Intrepid Travel or probably Travel Inn their Indian counterpart wanted us to stay in Kingston Park in Karol Baug, Delhi! Well all was not lost yet D and I found that The Delhi Manor also had an outstanding restaurant called — ‘Indian Accent‘. This place has won a good few awards and also featured in the Qantas in-flight magazine. I had made a booking for us at the Indian Accent for tonight.
Indian Accent which is the Restaurant of The Manor is cocooned in a very leafy part of Friends Colony in South Delhi. Rakesh-ji took us there on time and we so felt like home the moment we stepped in. This place is just gorgeous! It is so secluded by a thick belt of tropical trees and tree lined streets and lane ways all along… and far-far away from the hustle and bustle of the Delhi streets. It is a sanctuary in the bliss of emerald green. Very unassuming from outside but soon the gate opens and the guard throws in a big salute to you, all you notice is a big carpet of green, the soft glow of diffused lighting, flower petals strewn along your pathway, blossoms of Marigold and Frangipani in ornate bowls and a very plush elegant inside sporting a cozy bar and an rather intimate restaurant overlooking the green.
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