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By: The Great Indian Dream » Dumb logic of the year

The Great Indian Dream » Dumb logic of the year — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:51:52 +0000

[...] Finally, if what I read on Megha’s blog is true (read), well there is no point in me rambling about it because I totally agree with her (whoever this Megha chick is). [...]

By: Megha

Megha — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:39:24 +0000

[All] Thankoo all for writing in and for the congratulatory wishes. As a bit of a departure from tradition, I am not going to write individual replies on the rest of the comments on this thread. This topic has been flogged plenty already and it is time to leave the horse to die, I think. Plus we have some fresh inspired silliness up on the blog, so let us go waste our time on that instead :) Ta!

ps .. Boo hoo. The Patriots lost. Pliss to not rub it in! *sniffle*

By: death

death — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:17:25 +0000

this is a hot design dear. So pretty :D

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:03:00 +0000

Hey, congrats!!!

I wanted u to win the other less important award too. Maybe next year :)

By: Daku of Darbhanga

Daku of Darbhanga — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:05:06 +0000

Sassura eee bloggging elecksun ma bhee be-imannnee karat rahe logan!!……….Meghaji…Firsht Praieej to aaap ke hee blog ko sobha deta hai……..Meghaji… bole to hum tuhar waaste duee char laathva ghumaye ke sassura booth capturing kar levat hain ….kaa kahat ho…eee logan play-gear-ijhum karke naamee-nate ho gaye …chambal kee ghati main termeee-nate kar devenge……waise agar ham vote karte …hamara vote aap hee ke blog ke waaste hota …..acha chlate hain…kaunu tensun ho to jaroor yaad keejeyega…ram ram!

By: Suyog

Suyog — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:56:03 +0000

BANG ON!!

This was exactly what I was fight about with Debhashish on the repoll category. I stayed away from repoll as I thought it was completely useless and didnt matter anymore.

In any case, you won, and you DESERVEDLY won! This is the best “originally” designed there is in Indian Blogosphere, and the award has to repsect that!!

Cheers!

Suyog

By: Suhail Kazi

Suhail Kazi — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:51:26 +0000

Congrats! Though I had voted for you the first time round..I just gave the whole second round a miss.
It was ridiculous to say the least and I though it was not even worth going through it again. Infact even the first time round in the best tag category…one of the tagline had a spelling mistake: “existance”!

Whatever, all’s well that ends well :)

By: Harsh

Harsh — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:20:50 +0000

Congrats… Best wishes for next year. was unaware (dont call me dumb :) ) this years contest.

By: Dev

Dev — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:11:35 +0000

[RJA] Adding to that list,

* Search engine friendliness
* JScripts and Stylesheets in a separate URL v/s embedded
* DIV v/s TABLE and similar HTML choices
* onHover available in Firefox, so JScrpt hacking needed in IE and other cross browser issues
* Beating the outputs from 3rd party services like blog-maps etc into your look and feel
* Image editing for the internet

By: ?!

?! — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:41:39 +0000

http://www.itwofs.com/hindi-salilc.html

See how even iconic songs like “Dil tadap tadap” have been “lifted”. The point is not about being original. It is about being creative. If you can take something and make it suit your context, your mood… it deserves a prize.

(You won and the blog rocks).

“While firstly, I doubt the credibility of that statistic, even if that were true, then why SHOULDNâ€™T that 1% be honored? It is the DESIGN category, for crying out loud!”

Precisely. It is the design category. If somebody has had the _unique_ taste of using a template that nobody else has : congrats. Cos he/she has displayed _unique_ taste. Else the whole blogosphere would’ve had the same template. Design awards are for using building blocks, not making them : or should be. Awards for best templates are basically geekbased.

If somebody has customised one to suit his/her blog, and the effect rocks … why, it DESERVES the award. Cos using a template is but a starting point.

Consider this : if this same template had been used, say, for desipundit (linkfest based) or any of the political/topical blogs, it would’ve sucked.
:))