After the new launch of my site I got a listing at the following great portals, highly appreciated and keep up the good work.

1. CSS Mania
   CSS Mania was born in 2004 and once official launch became extremely popular. CSS Mania claims to be the worlds first and biggest CSS website Showcase gallery.
2. Creative - Pakistan
   Creative Pakistan is a platform provided to exhibit fresh, reviving, thoughtful and interesting creations by Pakistani Web Designers. With the increase in World Wide Web, Pakistanis are developing and improving their skills day by day in the line of web styling, designing and development.
3. W3C Sites
   W3C Sites is a collection of web sites created by designers that conform with the W3C standards.Despite the name ‘W3C’, W3C Sites is not an initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), but rather an inspiration that came out of it.The site has one goal. The same goal that responsible web designers all share. That is to promote web sites that are designed to comply to the web standards.
4. CSS Container
   A CSS gallery listing

I was just roaming around on the net and was going through Genex Blog and stumbled upon the story on AboutUs.org, which happen to have an office in Lahore. AboutUs.org is a sort of wikipedia, but instead of wiki about dead people i mean historic stuff and encyclopedia it a wiki on people, business & web according to them

AboutUs is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other community created topics. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day.

So to test the site i entered my name and search, when result came i was bit shocked as some one had been kind enough to add all my information there, even my picture ! My website was already listed with all its details. Its a good feeling to see that happen and gives a feeling as if you were some kind of a famous Designer on whom people would write about any how apart from that day dreaming part it is a bit scary as well in terms of Privacy, as what all we publish on our web properties gets reproduced some other place without our knowledge.

The last time i saw this technology was a James Bond movie where he had a pair of glasses with which you could see through the clothes, it was a good fantasy…..

A camera that can “see” explosives, drugs and weapons hidden under clothing from 25 metres has been invented.The ThruVision system could be deployed at airports, railway stations or other public spaces.It is based on so-called “terahertz”, or T-ray, technology, normally used by astronomers to study dying stars. Although it is able to see through clothes it does not reveal “body detail” or subject people to “harmful radiation”, according to the designers.

“It is totally and utterly passive - it receives only,” said a spokesperson for Thruvision.

Source: BBC News 

As mentioned previously, Rozee the job portal of Pakistan is holding its 4th job fair which is invite only bases, though i didnt apply for any job on Rozee.pk but some how the nice people at Rozee send me an invite of the job fair, so yes probably i would drop by now:

Things rozee mentioned me to do :

• Print the invitations and bring it along hmmm tough one i dont have a printer
• Dress formally .on SUNDAY get a life people i prefer my summer shorts wont it be fun : ) .. 
• bring 10 coppies of my cv ….. comon i dont have a printer its a digital world i can email 100’s of them

Things i have to do

• Convince some of my lazy friends to acompany me there on SUNDAY chances 99.9% a 4ka from friends ..
• Probably try to find out which of my good friend have a printer i can use
• Damit i just realized its on March 2nd i.e. comming sunday

While stuck in traffic i receive an SMS from Mobilink Informing me about there another portal service “Mobilink World” . Being a net addict to the internet i went over to the site and once again just like Wateen i witnessed the sentence written in the footer “Best Viewed in IE6″ is it me or all the IT experts working in big companies like Mobilink are blind as to what they have mentioned on the footer of there site. Let me explain what they meant by “Best Viwed in IE6″ the sentence clearly states that

“We have build this site on Windows Based system using HTML tables drawn in Dreamweaver we don’t know even HTML, although the technology we used to build dynamics of the site is PHP which is an open source platform, we have learned to write this sentence in 1990’s when there was Internet Explorer & Netscape Communicator, we have no idea about Firefox, Opera, Safari, we really don’t know if this site will open in a cell phone browser either, we don’t know what accessibility, usability and cross browser / cross platform accessibility is we have never heard of W3C standards”

Unfortunately for me this kind of statement goes personal as every single day i spend hours of my work drafting, refining, optimizing & studying CSS  i work hours optimizing a site to work perfectly with IE6,IE7, Firefox 1, Firefox2, Opera, Safari, i try to figure out a way to make a site look perfect in all resolutions. But for some people its just collection of the check without caring as to what image they are projecting to there work. I dont claim my site to be perfect but at least it stands at a level where its code is optimized, it works in all browser, its written in clean CSS and validates w3c. But in Pakistan the web is evolving & becoming a necessity for every corporation but the people ending up getting the projects are not qualified for the work they land in. As long as corporations make decisions on the basis of reference and connection the end result will be “Best Viewed in IE6″

Mobilink World developed by Evamp & Saanga