LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

Walkthrough of the Redesign

When I first launched my blog the main intention was to make my mark online. Without sticking into blogspot (Anyway, I had a blog on there for a short stint) or wordpress.com, I decided to go one step ahead and host the blog in my own domain with a customized template. That was a […]


Gmail realigns it’s interface

It seems Gmail has also joined the rounded corner and drop shadow galore with it’s upgrade to the interface. Even though there isn’t a major upgrade in the main UI message interface has become much sweet.
Also they have taken all the message actions to a top-right drop-down menu, which actually becomes quite irritating than the […]


Semantics on Word Processing.

As an adamant fan of web standards and semantically correct web design, I always tried to avoid using tables in web page layout design. But I never thought of taking that practice beyond web design.
However today I got a call from a less-tech savy person, who wanted me to help him with a layout of […]


They know where you’ve been……

I stumbled on this critical exploit (or rather smart technique) while I was visiting “How Web2.0 - Aware are you ??” They calculated a percentage based on the sites I have visited out of the 42 sites that were on their list. So how did they knew I visited these site ? Yeah they sniff […]