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A Trip to Golden Temple Vellore

Location:

No one knows about this place much but this is one of the beautiful temples i have visited. It is very charismatic and beautiful. A wonderful place to go over a small trip.

Journey:

We left Banglaore, Indiranagar near about 10 in the morning. Started over with a delight and after having a sound sleep friday night. Took the domlur flyover and kicked our journey towards hosur road via koramangala. The new flyover bypassing the whole big traffic line of Electronic City added fun to the journey. With in minutes we were out of bangalore. The road is sweet. Took the Atibble road (NH7) and continued on the Chennai Highway.  Reached Hosur and headed to Krishnagiri. This was my third journey on the chennai highway and it is always fun to drive on those wide roads which i generally find back in delhi. After driving on conjusted roads of bangalore it feels so comfortable and joyful driving on the wide roads of chennai. The road is beautiful. In total you will find four toll gates ( if you are using the fly over of Electronic City ). Once you reach the fourth toll gate at Pallikonda, driving two kilometeres further ahead you will find a board inidcating Sripuram Golden temple. On the way you will find many boards pointing out to other temples but wait till u see the Sripuram board. We reached the temple in three hours somewhere around 1.
There is a place to park the car in the temple. So dont park your car outside on the road. I initially parked my car outside and left my shoes in the car, had to walk on the burning road and that was not good. Take the car in the temple, dont leave your shoes in the car. There are counters to keep your shoes. Leave other things like camera, purse, and other valueables in the car or you can even leave them at the counter for valuable things. Different counters for different items and all at nominal price.
Once we were done with the parking and other work. Went to take the tickets. A thing which i saw in most of South Indian temples, there are charges for different types of rows. The one with the higher cost takes u to the God in the fastest time.
We selected the 1001 ticket which had a Pooja for us sitting in front of the God with Pujari giving swarn Pushp and prasaad at the end. Other options were a 520 ticket which has something deleted from the package or go a 250 one which is not present always.
The aangan of temple is beautiful. It is constucted in the shape of a star. So walking u will go in a zig zagg manner. Construction is nice, temple is neat and clean. Every turn u will find milk and drinks being served to you, paying a nominal amount.
Reached the temple, it looks very  beautiful, full of gold. It looks like a Raja’s Mahal. And around 6 the lights of the temple are turned on. The temple is surrounded with water and at night the reflection of temple in water makes it more beautiful. With only 30 minutes of walk we reached the temple. Pujari asked the names of all the family members and did puja for 15 minutes. Came out, had lunch in the restaraunt in side the temple.
Finishing everything , headed to yelagiri which was around 80 Kms from the temple. Over a good experience.

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Buffalo Theory

“Buffalo Theory:-

A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”

HTML Editing and Java Script

Slicing HTML

Slicing HTML involves playing with the stuff on the HTML Page like “divs”, “select boxes”, “input boxes” and much-much more. To start with, Some simple points :-

Every element is associated with the ID. ID is used to access that object on the HTML page. And document.getElementById(“element_name”) will give you the power to access that element on the page. Now you are just one step away from altering/modifying the HTML page.

document.getElementByTagsName(“div”) will give you all the divs on the page. Again one step away from editing the page. Isnt is simple?

Inner HTML can be used to set the content of the page. The good/bad thing about Inner html is that it over writes what ever content is already associated with that element.

Document Object Model:-

With DOM the page looks like a tree with each element acting as the node of the tree.

For the above tree this is the HTML.

<html>

<head></head>

<body>

<p id=”story”>

Hey <strong>Akshat</strong>

</p>

</body>

</html>

Main Properties to consider in the Dom tree are nodeValue, nodeType,  firstChild, lastChild, childNodes

Document.getElementByTagsName(“body”)[0].childNodes[1].lastChild points to strong.

Changing the node text:-

var node = document.getElementBId(“story”);

while(node.firstchild) node.removechild(node.firstchild);

node.appendchild(document.createTextNode(“OK Finally”));

Creating a new Element:-

Var paragraph =document.createElement(p) – Just specify the tag name here

paragraph.appendchild(document.createTextNode(“The text in the paragraph”));

document.getElementbyId(“story”).appendchild(paragraph);

How much user Interface matters?

User Interface. A place where user gets to know about your services. The services that you are offering.

The user interface does matter a lot to the people. Since they make the perception about the website and the product and everything from the user interface. If the user interface looks bad there is no chance that u can do well. It does not mean that if you just have good user interface things will work but make it comfortable for the user. Make him feel he is at a very comfortable place. Getting what he wants.

I would say if you have to design a user interface put your self in the place of the customer and see if you will like the user interface if you land on this website.

Few simple and intuitive tips for good user interface:-

• Consistency:- Users adapt to a website. Consistency in the user interface helps them create a mental model of the website. in the mind. For Example links are of blue color, Headings and important things are in green. Make the shape of buttons consistent.  And do not try to innovate in a “different” way. Simple intution should solve most of the purpose.
• Easy Navigation:- Easy navigation gives the user simple way to hop from pages. Interlinked content, Nice relevant pages shown on the right or bottom, Filters to go back up a level and go deep one level are simple things that we want to fulfill for the user.
• Think the users on the website are dumb:- There should be one section which explains how the user can use the website. Putting slides using slide share or videos using You Tube would help the user to understand your product well and prevent him to make any use less assumptions that might build up in his mind other wise.
• Write the messages and labels in an effective manner.
• Use the colors and theme for the website properly. Too much colors make the users feel annoyed. Too less makes the website boring. So use colors but in a controlled and theme way. Don’t try to make it too flashy always follow the KISS principle. It works for sure.
• Humans do mistakes:- Expecting your users to make mistakes is one good way to handle errors that might happen otherwise. Handle all the errors properly.
• Proper alignment and Proper structure.

I think most of the things are simple and intutive but simple things do matter alot.

Think Big

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.