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One of our xhtml/css web standard design project - Indian Geeks Organization was highlighted on Web Creme recently.

View iGeeks entry at Web Creme.

The discussion of a general design theme came up amongst the team and we realized that we wanted a simple, a very simple design. So, we decided to have a KISS theme. The final verdict was to do a universal template so it can be used in WordPress and Movable Type. As we followed the Six Apart’s Movable Type Template Schema, the template can also be used on TypePad and LiveJournal installations.

PREVIEW, DOWNLOADS & DISCUSS

• Preview, Installation, Related Links and Notes available at the Kiss Template Page
• Download Movable Type, Wordpress or Blogger Themes
• Technical Forum Discussion

I have known Hussain for his simple yet pleasing, efficient and effective websites confirming to Web Standards, valid (x)html, css. I have been in discussion with him off and on on how we can work together and finally yesterday, the 14th February, 2006 he finally agreed to work fulltime with Oinam Software.

ChugsDesigns is perhaps one of the only few web development entity in India which concentrates on web standards, valid codes, emphasize on structured semantic markup. ChugsDesigns already have an impressive portfolio.

Oinam Software is extremely glad to welcome ChugsDesigns to the team. We expect to push the possibilities of giving the best of Web Standards, Effective and Accessible Designs, Valid Structured Semantics realm and to provide the best experience for our Clients and their projects.

The thing I love about our team and the people involved is that, we do what we really love to. We are very fortunate to get the best opportunity to push forward our passion for these technologies. Driven by the urge to push the envelope beyond, way beyond and to compete at the highest level of quality and standards, to be in the forefront and a precursor of the technology we are involved with, Oinam will try to strive more and more towards developing high quality Software Applications for the web, desktop and other varied medias.

Descendant Selectors

I am a big fan of Descendant Selectors and use it rather profusely. It is made up of two or more selectors cascaded by separating them with whitespaces. It helps me to match an element that is the descendant of another element in the document tree.

#myID { }
#myID .myClass { }
.myClass { }

Here in the above code, the attributes defined in the second line will be applied to .myClass elements in the document which is a descendant of the parent ID #myID. Whereas .myClass can be applied to other totally different set of elements that are not descendant of #myID.

div * p

will match only the paragraph elements that are grandchild or later descendant of a div element.
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Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design is not just a book on CSS for professionals - intermediate to advanced designers and developers but far more than that. Irrespective of the Professional tag there in the title, this book would still be useful for beginners and can in fact upgrade them to another level.

The nice part of this book was that I could refer to the screenshot diagrams alongside the codes. The emphasis laid out on the Separation Of Content and Design through techniques that are semantic, well-structured markups proved to be effective yet simple, clear-cut and to-the-point. Accessibility too, is taken care of.
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