About me and inspired buddy
Personal
This site is designed, developed and authored by me, Rajveer Singh Rathore. I'm an Indian web professional working as a Senior Consultant.
I use this site to post interesting articles about web design and my random thoughts in general. I am not a master but hopefully these articles can be helpful for rest of the world.
Design is involved in each thing that exists in this world, my soul truly belongs to design and its purpose. As a web professional I spend more time on making things most usable rather than designing useless fancy stuff. My ideal design is simple, clean and easily accessible for everyone.
Web site
This site is named as Inspired Buddy in honour of all the contemporary web experts whose blogs/wesites inspires me in this role as a succesful web professional. Check random place to go listed at the bottom of the page for the same. This site is developed with valid XHTML 1.0 Strict coding and styled with CSS. There should be no errors if you check Inspired Buddy with W3C HTML Validator.
Accessibility
Accessibility is very important to me, regardless of disability, software or hardware. Please use the Switch to zoom layout feature if you face any difficulty in reading. If you experience any other problem related to accessibility on this site, please let me know, I will try to fix that.
Technology and more
The back-end support system is WordPress, running my own custom theme. There should be no errors in the HTML or CSS, but feel free to contact me if you do find any. I have posted a Frequently Asked Questions page to answer many of general questions.
Web design skills
I always try to keep my work focused on simple and functional designs. I believe there is elegance and beauty in simplicity and this translates to a better experience for the user. I have a strategic, conceptual and user-centered approach to my work which includes:
- Understanding of the design process from initial concept to end product
- Understanding about user experience design and web usability best practices
- Mastery in hand coding elegant and valid (X)HTML/CSS markup and solving cross-browser issues
- Knowledge of Web Accessibility and W3C specifications
- Understanding of working on different CMS
- Experienced in communicating with clients and make the required judgment
- Proficient in communicating with a diverse range of individuals and managing multiple-projects
- Graphic & Design
- Paper Prototyping
- Web site design
- Concept visuals
- Layout and editorial
- Typography
- Photo Retouching
- Software Capabilities
- Photoshop
- Flash
- Illustrator
- Dreamweaver
- FrontPage
- Acrobat
- Coding
- HTML/XHTML/CSS
- Web Standards & Accessibility
- W3C compliance
- JavaScript
- Knowledge of Ajax possibilities
- Awareness of .NET, PHP & JSP
- CMS and Blog Stuff
- WordPress
- Confluence Wiki
- vBulletin
- IBP Forum
- Site Build It! ("SBI!")
- Joomla
- Operating Systems
- Usually I work on Windows but I am also aware of working on Mac Operating System.
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Photos
Check some pictures of me and my freelance work on Flickr account.Important sub-pages
Please have a quick read of below: Important to read if you're willing to hire me, or you want to use anything from this blog.Latest writings
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- It rarely happens that I have to compose a really long email. Every email has it’s own intend, and a long email certainly has a...
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- I never realized how dangerous asbestos can be, despite of being a very useful material – before I got an overview about asbestos. Lot of...
- Typographical t-shirt design for my ThoughtWorks team
- Many of you may already know that currently I am working as a Senior Consultant for ThoughtWorks. I was highly motivated by my teammates to...

