My New Portfolio

Posted On 9:56 AM by Abhinav Rastogi 0 Comments

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Hi all,

I am finally making my own portfolio! Upto this time, I was depending on an external website. Though I hadn't really put up any of my designs, but I was planning to. I just got a mail from them stating that they were shutting down, so now I am making a new blog which will house exclusively my portfolio. You can reach it by clicking here.

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Birthday Magic

Posted On 1:11 AM by Abhinav Rastogi 1 Comments

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Greetings!!

Its that time of the year again! Yeah, you guessed it right (I am sure you did...). Its my birthday today!! Yep, 11 July once again... So here is a birthday card for me. You can also gift it to someone else you want to wish!! Also, the same wallpaper, but with a more useful quote, so that everyone can use it as a wallpaper. Read More to see the images.





The quote on this one says "Magic: When Illusions seem Real". A really catchy and logical quote. :)



Thanks for your wishes in advance! As a gift, I would appreciate link-backs from you! :D Leave your links in the comments to get a link as a return gift from me.

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Process Improvement Blog

Posted On 12:26 PM by Abhinav Rastogi 4 Comments

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Hi there!

Here is another blog that I redesigned as a freelance job. The name of the blog is Process Improvement Blog and the author is Kanishk Rastogi. The design was required to be professional and business oriented, along with a flexi-width format such that it always took maximum horizontal space available to minimize scrolling. That is exactly what he got. :) Read More to read the testimonial.



The author is well on his way to become a quality and process expert. His blog is about achieving excellence in business processes. He is also an active photographer, you can find the links on his blog. He seems to be really satisfied with the service that he got from me, and here is his testimonial and recommendation on LinkedIn.

“As a very dedicated and superbly creative designer, Abhinav took the responsibility of entirely redesigning my blog and performed far better than my expectations. Initially, when he suggested me to redesign, rather create a new blog from scratch, I was not convinced that how a new design will improve my blog and increase it's visibility. Abhinav explained me in a detailed, yet convincing manner the advantages of having a new, smoother look to my blog. He spent considerable time in understanding the purpose of my blog and then finding the right template for it. His creativity and skill-set in using various softwares, web-based tools, and coding are superb. Once familiar with the blog vision & my requirements/expectations from the new design, he created 5 different templates in a progressive manner, each superior and better than the previous one. Finally, he customized the template of my choice per my requirements and carried the transition smoothly with no loss of any data or code. I highly recommend Abhinav for website designing.”




Do comment on whether you like this design or not.

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Retro-style Vector Cityscape

Posted On 11:57 PM by Abhinav Rastogi 5 Comments

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Hi there!

I think its about time I tried my hand at Vector drawing. So here is an interesting wallpaper with lots of thought behind it. The quote from 'The Matrix' says "Choice. The problem is Choice". One person says "Everything begins with a choice." But another contradicts, "Choice is just an illusion." Mull it over in your mind with this wallpaper on your desktop.



This wallpaper specifically depicts the choice between the dark and bright, the good and the evil, the progressive and degenerative.

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Web 2.0 Subscription Icons

Posted On 4:33 PM by Abhinav Rastogi 3 Comments

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Greetings!
Here are some awesome icon sets for you to display on your blog or website and attract the attentions of your readers to your updates!




You can now receive latest updates via SMS whenever new articles are put up on this blog! Click here to subscribe! Today, I was going through the Google Labs when I ran across their SMS service. It is a wonderful service under which you can operate a channel on which you post some short content (eg. your latest blog post titles) and people who subscribe to this channel (currently from India only) get those updates on their cell-phones at absolutely no cost. So this blog's updates will now be available at this channel. To subscribe to it, all you need to do is register you phone number with Google (a very easy, 2 step process) and then click here.

Please link back to this page if you use any of the icons below.

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A Tribute to Michael Jackson

Posted On 4:46 PM by Abhinav Rastogi 5 Comments

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Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009), the seventh child of the Jackson family, made his debut onto the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1969, and later began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group. Referred to as the "King of Pop" in subsequent years, his 1982 album "Thriller" remains the world's best-selling record of all time and four of his other solo studio albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995). (From Wikipedia)
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Here I dedicate a wallpaper to Michael Jackson, the real King of Pop. May he Rest in peace.

Did you know, "Forever, Michael" is also a name of one of his albums?

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