History I look back and remember FrontPage, Macromedia & wonderful Geocities – I think it’ll be safe to call it WordPress of 90’s! I was a young kid and was really fascinated with the web and more so in how it was built and Geocities left a positive mark which gave initial kick start to…
I got my first taste of meaningful success because of WordPress, when the first free theme I uploaded became one of the top-5 most downloaded themes on the WordPress.org. Since then, WordPress has become a major part of my life. It has helped my company take off, helped me meet likeminded people who have become…
History When I graduated from high school, 95% of my friends got scholarships abroad for higher education. After studying at one of the best schools of the country and not being able to go abroad for higher studies was a complete “failure”, at least that’s how it’s looked upon here. I wasn’t sure what I…
I developed reading habit very early. In fact I can’t recall my childhood without memories of Chacha Chaudhary comics and Champak. During high school (in 8th class), a new teacher, Kunal Sir, joined our school. He wanted to re-open school library which was closed since a long time. I volunteered for this task and as…
When Topher approached me to contribute my story on HeroPress, I was overwhelmed. I felt that I had lots to learn before I could even think about contributing. I decided to decline. As I was preparing to write to him, I decided to browse through the site and that’s when I came across a line…
There are lots of web developers out there, so what does really differentiate a good web developer from a bad web developer, and most importantly, how can you help clients see the difference? To me, it all boils down to one thing: Being ready to do whatever it takes in order to become successful. Seeing…
ByRamya
This is a story I’ve told many, many times before. Only, I’ve never been asked by anybody within the WordPress community. So far, my stories have always been for my readers. My name is Ramya Pandyan but I’m better known as IdeaSmith. My first brush with blogging began in the late 90s when the internet…
The first time I came across the internet was back in 1995 when an uncle showed how he sent to email to connect with his sons who were studying in the US. In those days, the PC was not a common place in India. Internet was via dial up and expensive. About 5 years later,…
Act 1: For the love of Poetry It all started in 1999 in Bombay. A PC was considered a luxury; very few people had one and OS and Windows were synonyms. I was eighteen and a prolific poet, having fallen in love with poetry at a young impressionable age. Like all creators of any sort,…
