Reality Equation

I'm Parimal Satyal, a web designer, writer, musician, explorer. More about me ››

Writing for Rev2.org

Here’s something you (probably) didn’t know about me: I’m an Associate Analyst at Rev2.org.

Rev2 is “a weblog dedicated to profiling the best web apps/services and tracking new emerging trends in this space”, founded and run by editor and Web 2.0 buff Sid Yadav, with help from other associate contributers like myself.

I started last year — I did an in-depth review of social networking site Bebo, and some news reports — and, after taking a break for some time due to exams and illness, resumed writing only recently. I’m particularly proud of my most recent piece on challenges that OpenID faces, which is currently the featured article.

If news, trends, aquisitions, mergers and gossip about the Web 2.0 revolution (or bubble, if you like) is your pack of coffee, head on over to Rev2. And while you’re there, see if you can find my stuff.

February 11th, 2008
Technology

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why is this required anyway?

February 16th, 2008

oie satu,

what do you use to design web pages? do you use dreamweaver? or do you use expression web? wait, why am i asking this, don’t you hate microsoft? anyway, i wanted to learn something, so i thought why not dab my hands into web designing? but i don’t know where to start or how to start. i’ll be going to india soon, so by that time i want to know which software to get and learn. apparently PC magazine rates expression web as being more usable (less complicated) but thinks dreamweaver cs3 has everything. what say you?

Parimal Satyal

February 17th, 2008

¡Hola!

First off, you’re going to India? When did this happen?

Also, Microsoft I do not hate; just can’t relate to them as much as other companies. Their Mac Business Unit and Phillipe Starck mice are great!

As for web design, I use neither. Because I’m a Mac user, Expression Web is out, and Dreamweaver’s too expensive (although nice, I’ll admit).

It really doesn’t matter which editor you use to create your websites. The first step to learning web design is to teach yourself HTML and CSS; the first one you use to structure your pages (with content), the second one to style/design. You can try these HTML and CSS beginner’s guides.

I myself use free tools Taco HTML Edit, TextWranger and Intype (if I’m on a Win PC), all of which are free. For a complete list of what I used to make my website, check out the Powered-by post here.

Hope this helps.

why is this required anyway?

February 17th, 2008

Taco? textWRANGER? hahaha…kyaa pakhe naam…but i shall look into them…

Parimal Satyal

February 17th, 2008

You’re welcome.

why is this required anyway?

February 19th, 2008

intype doesn’t seem to be free now does it? i checked tesko FAQs and its neither freeware nor open source bhancha ta…you get a trail version for like 30 days? how the hell do you get it for free? oh and any news on the book? or should i just print stuff from the internet and take it along?

why is this required anyway?

February 19th, 2008

oh and how do you get the reverse exclamation mark working?

Parimal Satyal

February 22nd, 2008

Intype is not technically free, but you can try out their Alpha builds. You can expect that these builds, by virtue of being pre-Beta even, won’t be very stable, but will work. (Apart from a few hangs the app’s performed very well).

And a book? I haven’t read this myself but Head First HTML with XHTML & CSS might be good. Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML, too, is supposed to be good, although I’ve heard it’s not quite as friendly to the beginner as the name would suggest. (You can click those names for Amazon links).

Reverse exclamation mark: just copy and paste