The day was supposed to have been a lengthy one. Some of the outstation participants had to go early tomorrow and hence a huge chunk of the portion had to be completed today. Today’s topics were quite interesting – Writing Content for the Web, Typography, Using Web Controls, Design for Web Applications, Use of Graphics and Colours. The discussions are always conjoined with an exercise and it helps to remember things. We also take time out and review some website in conjunction with whatever is being taught currently.
Since the workshop was now 24 hours old we had the opportunity to know about each other in the lunch time. Shalaka and Sanjyoti both work for Cognizant at Pune. Shalaka is a multi-faceted personality and has done a lot of study in numerous fields including painting landscapes. She’s working for Cognizant’s Banking domain as a designer and was here to know more about usability. Sanjyoti is an HTML developer for the insurance practice and it was a pleasure talking to her. Abhijeet Gore works for Microsoft in India as a project manager and we invariably hurl some potshots at each other in the name of our businesses. He was kind enough to show us all the new Internet Explorer 7 Beta on his trendy Toshiba ‘swivel top’ (a laptop with a swiveling screen). Cool machine I must say. Another set of wonderful people are a couple from Hyderabad Bhavin and Deeptha Doshi. I told Bhavin he’s a ‘corrupted’ Gujju because his English is very pure and the typical accent is not there and he laughed. Both Deeptha and Bhavin work for Singularity for the past 5 years. I plan to take some pictures of the participants tomorrow and let’s hope for the best.
The only logical complaint that I would have about the workshop is the venue which is Powai. Yesterday it took nearly 2 and a half hours to reach Borivli and today was the same story again. The manuals which I have got at the course as curriculum are pretty extensive and heavy and hence I have kept them at the venue itself. I would bring them tomorrow as the workshop ends itself.
