Tag Archives: HTML

Announcing the launch of a new blog

By gautham | Published: October 31, 2010

No fan fare. No trumpets. With this single post we come to an end to any kind of technical discussions in Ipse Dixit. All geeky stuff will now be redirected to g33k – my new official tech space .

Barty
G33k
http://gauthamponnu.com/g33k

Tearfully, for the last time – I’m launching into one more technical babble.

There are really two kinds of blogging I’ve been doing: writing and sharing technical stuff generally desktop customization. However, I soon realized that my limited number of readers were predominantly not interested in any computer- related stuff let alone whatever latest and mightiest conky configuration I had set up. Hence, to cater to my exclusive tech audience I’m starting this new journal of my  tech journey.


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Playing Audio in WP!

By gautham | Published: October 18, 2009

Ho … ho. I found out finally how to pronounce linux. And guess what I have been doing it right, right from the first time I heard that word :mrgreen: . Found this audio clip in wikimedia commons.

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux kernel

And if things still don’t work here’s the link for downloading :
HandLinux by Linus

That was how I actually started. The problem arised when I wanted to embed a player in my page, instead of just a link. And surprise,surprise :shock: Ogg is not supported that easily. I looked into several 3rd party players, though they support Ogg the dynamic WP engine doesn’t seem to support them. WP simply supports, using a audio player plugin, based on flash any mp3 can be played.


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Meet Gautham Beta v1.0

By gautham | Published: October 2, 2009

Hello … everybody . It’s been a long time since I started working on my web-designing skills.
Yesterday, I crafted my latest version of the my simple and humble website. It’s been a long work and very tiring but neverthless a labour of love :D ( Luv that word )

Here it is …. Click on the picture to go the new page

Meet Gautham

Meet Gautham

U like it ? U hate it ? U think something is missing ? U think it is too much ? Rave, Criticize . Say anything about the design …

I’m waiting for your reply ;)

This time it’s ur turn to speak :p

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Is [Invalid Markup] invalid ???

By gautham | Published: September 27, 2009

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). It has a markup and validation service for HTML and CSS widely considered to be the official standard for clean and efficient coding.

Google Invalid ?

Google Invalid ?

I just came across this today while I was inspecting. Google the world’s leading search engine and considered by many to be the leading trendsetter in anything related to the cloud has it’s homepage riddled with HTML markup errors. In fact, when I ran the W3C validator I got this :

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.in%2F

It has 55 errors :mrgreen: Go GOOGLE …


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Why I quit HTML ?

By gautham | Published: August 22, 2009

I am by nature an introvert. Though, on the rare occasions when you find me hot on thinking about a topic you would discover to your pain that I really ain’t so.

When I started working upon my own website, I had three main problems.

  • I had no funds. This webspace still runs on almost zero funding.
  • All the limited HTML I knew was back when I learnt it  when I was doing my 6th standard.
  • I never did have time ;)

However, determined and reckless as youth is I took the plunge.


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