Hi, I am Divya Manian. I am a finger bender create websites.

As a university student, I was looking at ways to pass time after skipping classes, when Deepak Jois handed me a copy of Designing with Web Standards. Since then, I have spent sleepless nights learning Information Architecture, Content Strategy, Principles of Graphic Design, Typography, Accessibility, and Usability to become a proficient web designer.

I graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering and developed device drivers before I quit to pursue a career in web design. Thanks to my programming background, I can bridge the divide between development and design. It also helps to be married to a hacker.

I love to sketch and illustrate. My work has been featured on the website of Ministry of Education, Singapore and the Word-It Book.

I often blog about trends in web design. Here are some of my best entries:

• Font in your face — The history of web typography, current status, and a short note on the future it holds.
• The Long Road from XHTML to HTML — an article on the rise and fall of XHTML.
• The Truth About Doctypes — a look at why Doctypes were created, and which Doctypes give you the best results in popular browsers.
• Multi-Lingual Fonts with Typotheque and Font Face — an investigation into rendering non-latin scripts using web fonts.
• A bit of SVG and Canvas — SVG and Canvas have gained currency because of greater support in HTML 5. This post explains the differences between the two and how to use them with older browsers.
• About Fonts in SVG — I investigate how fonts are rendered in SVG and how SVG fonts can work as webfonts.
• Declaring Languages in HTML 5, going through the rabbit hole that is internationalization of HTML documents.
• Using Data URIs in CSS — A post on how Data URIs can be used to render fonts and images.
• What Web Designers need to know about EPUB - An introduction to the EPUB book format for web designers and how to take advantage of it.

If you would like to read more posts like these, you can subscribe to my blog.

I use Twitter as a study group, if you are interested in the latest gossip in W3C HTML 5 WG learning about HTML 5, CSS 3, follow me. I also hang out at Doctype, a community for web designers.

I am currently accepting pro bono assignments with non-profits. Contact me if you work with one.