Chilligavva

I am writing of this a little late ( some kind of oversight I guess, I apologise Vinh Le ), but in the midst of spring cleaning my site, I now correct the omission. 

This morning, I recieved a google alert in my mail box from designshack. I was praying, with bated breath, and wonder of wonders, the design for chilligavva blog had made it to the site... My joy knew no bounds...

Just checked my email and was pleasantly surprised when i received a google alert from 13styles.com. I clicked on the URL and was wowed into noticing that my site got into the gallery for CSS menus. Yeah... Im especially pleased, as today is my wedding anniversary, and it made my day...:)

I had met Desh Kapoor via Mybloglog. We then became twitter followers. I visited his blog, Drishtikone and was very impressed. A couple of days back, I had tweeted about a song I heard called Gumshuda Chain. In response, Desh pointed me to a really really cool site called songza.com I WAS BLOWN AWAY by the site, and we ended up e-mailing each other. In the course of my conversation I sent him a logo I had created in mid December, when I saw his site. Artisitically, I just had to. His site has a really cool name called "Drishtikone", which in sanskrit means "Viewpoint", and literally means "eye corner".. I liked the name of the blog, and the content, a lot, and was inspired into creating a logo. Yesterday, I told him so and sent him a couple of logos to use for his portal and twitter page. This evening, I was looking at my page’s stat counter when I noticed some in-traffic from his blog. Wondering what the hoo ha was about, i reached ...

Thank you Zubli and Shinade for yet another award.  This time its the OPAL award... This is the second award I have earned/won so far.  Read all about it over here at Shinade's blog.  I am so flattered and pleased.  A real heartfelt thank Shinade and Zubli....

A little while ago, I had recieved the Silver award.  They then upgraded me to an Opal Award.  I feel truly blessed that I have such nice people buzzing about me.

My earlier web site design [yes the black and pink one, see picture above] was selected by CSS Import a web design showcase site.  I did not make it to the hall of fame, just yet, but did make it to the notable submissions category for June 2007.

Duly inspired, and rejuvenated with this kind of recognition, I again dug deep into my cultural background and came up with the current design.  I call this 'Cheera' which is Telugu for "Saree", the traditional garb of Indian women.

The header and footer have a traditional woven temple border (the triangles) motif.  I also played around with the layout of Flickr Photos , and came up with the impressive photo header. 

 I especially like the play of the speech bubbles across the site, as well as those of the circular bullets and the stylish 'chilligavva' in telugu in the footer.