Learning the tweaks

The festive mood is thickening; people are relaxed and are having real fun. Malls are packed, roads are unbelievably choked but everyone is in good humour. That's what the anticipation of a festival as colourful as Deepavali does to individuals at all levels.

The newspapers are now weighing almost three times more with all those advertising supplements and beautifully printed colourful handouts. And nothing you buy seems to be coming alone; there is something free for everything! The biggest offer I saw today was for one Orange properties - they offer helicopter services and a free Audi A4 car for those booking a villa by this Sunday. Can marketing schemes get any better?

I too was in a relaxed mood - only those planning to book a villa in Orange properties need to be in tension about where to land the helicopter on MG Road : ) Generally, I hate spending time in front of TV ... and today the programs were particularly bad...guess the channels are all reserving their best for the festival day...and so thought I would hit the laptop.

Till now I was content with playing around with changing templates for the blog but today, as there was time, I started searching around for some information on the net...and boy,did I find information! Millions and millions of pages loaded with hacks, codes and do-it-yourself tips...mind blowing...numbingly excessive... complete knockout.

What is so amazing is that all those experts are eager to help others and have posted every trick in the world for free ! Within the first five minutes in Google, it was clear that all one needs is a willingness to learn and connectivity.

To cut a long rambling short, inspite of zero background in editing templates, today I was able to load a minima three column template, hide the header text and load my custom image in its place! All in a single sitting : ) May be it is nothing but the value added by the net is so genuine and powerful.And once the template was in place, I was playing around with the codes for another couple of hours like a kid in his favourite sweet shop; at one point I got so reckless ( and to my surprise over confident too) that everything collapsed. I had to start all over again but it looked easy the second time around!

Hope you are all getting ready for a wonderful Deepavali celebration. Here is wishing you all great peace & prosperity, perhaps a villa in Orange Properties :)