Dânesh Zaki

I started work as an apprentice web designer and subsequently moved to programming. I was obsessed with HTML and Javascript (even after starting to program in real languages) and built a website of my own. This website remained bereft of any meaningful content and for a long time, all it had was links to other sites that I used to visit. But I often used to change the look and feel of it - adding mouseOver effects to menus, writing cascading stylesheets, using dynamic HTML tags and adding the right keywords in the META tag to attract search engines. What I did not realize however, was that while this was all good to attract attention, there was no way of retaining the visitors or “eyeballs” because there was nothing worth seeing or reading in the site. I could not decide the theme of my site - was it to be personal or technical or a combination of both. After a while, I realized that no matter how flashy the presentation, the real thing was content. Content is king. I decided to discard my site as I did not know what to have in it.

Years later (in 2003 to be precise), I chanced upon Blogger and decided to create this blog. History tried to repeat itself as I was getting too much into choosing the templates and settings, and not paying attention to the theme or content. Somehow, I escaped taking that route. I decided the theme of this blog and spared the eye-candy. Very recently, I started using a blog reader client and realized that RSS and Atom do not shake hands with HTML on presentation. So, if you are looking at this blog through a browser and find its template mundane, you know the reason why.