Ahmed Shan

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Posted on 13th February 2012

Designed a personal contact card

My Contact Card

I just designed a personal contact card. I wanted to keep everything clean, simple and similar. So the card also looks similar to my website layout and also my CV.

Posted on 1st January 2012

A Simple Layout


It did not took much time to create this simple layout. First creating a wireframe is always helpful. Then you can plan ahead and also keep it as a guide.

Posted on 31st December 2011

My Picasa Web Albums

I tried to fetch the albums from RSS using PHP and I can fetch them easily. However Google have wrapped the album image inside the description element, therefore I can’t get the album image separately. I can get the album image and the few other details of the album, with a link to view the album.
The description element is wrapped around a HTML table, it has a row and two columns. So what I did to get the album image is to use little bit of CSS tricks. The HTML structure looks like this.

<div class=”tag”>
<table>
<tr>
<td><!–Album Image–></td>
<td><!–Album Information–></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

I wrapped the whole table in a DIV tag and gave it a class name of “tag”, so that I can easily control the elements inside the DIV tag. Then I used the following CSS code to get the end result.
.tag {
float: left;
}
.tag tr td:last-child {
display: none;
}
Because there are only two columns in the table, last-child will is targeted to the second column which holds the album information. So now I have hidden that column.

Checkout the Picasa Web Albums page

Posted on 31st December 2011

The Coffee & Spice Company

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This is the fifth time I’m having a wonderful mean at The Coffee & Spice Company. On the first day I tried a curry puffs and I really loved it. It’s one of the best curry puffs I had in Malaysia.
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This time I ordered for 1 chicken sandwich, 1 curry puff and 1 hot hazelnut coffee.
The previous time I had the biriyani set meal and it was great. I really enjoyed it.
In addition they provide WI-FI service, so you can go online. In fact I’m writing this blog post while sitting at The Coffee & Spice Company at 1Utama shopping centre, Malaysia.
I would recommend The Coffee & Spice Company for family and friend to enjoy evening tea or morning breakfast.