D7 | About the Creator

Well, Hi. My name is Rahat. Full name: Rahat Ahmed (no middle name or initial). I was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh sometime during the 24 hour span of August 28, 1981. I lived there until 1990, when I packed up and moved to Houston, Texas to live with my uncle. And now, eleven years later, I'm finding myself on the 26th floor of a New York University dorm located in Manhattan's financial district. The view up here is amazing: Just look at the picture on top of this page.

I'm currently attending Stern School of Business here at NYU. I'm a sophomore and double majoring in Finance and Information Systems and hoping to complete a minor in Fine Arts. I'd like to think I've narrowed down my choices of a career over the past year, but even so, there's a lot left to decide from.

D7 | About Dequinix.com

Do you know what's annoying? Having set on a name you'd love to have as your domain only to realize someone else bought it just a few weeks before you would have yourself. And do you know what's just plain sad? Finding out the people who bought that domain name you wanted are now using it as a porn-site redirect link. Yes. That happened to me.

The end result of such events gave birth to Dequinix.com. I figured "might as well make up a word so no one else can take it." And I did. So when you wonder, "What does it mean?" I wish I could tell you. But I really can't. All I can say is that you look at the sites in its progression and decide for yourself what the word ought to mean—and that's what it means.

D7 | About Version 7.0

This is the third "In Transition" site I've created. Basically, the premise now is that this site will stay on until I get around to creating a complete site (i.e., more than four pages). I have ideas, but right now, I'm learning some new (to me) technologies. The name of this version, "Personal Home Page" is so for two reasons. First, the foundation of this site (aside from the obvious HTML) is PHP. Up until now, my pages have been static and created basically one by one. I'm finally trying to move on a bit. PHP itself stands for "Personal Home Page Tools," so I figured it's be an nice twist.

Second (and more importantly), I've realized over the past seven versions, my writing and content has tended to become more and more abstract/metaphorical to the point where some of the material only I can comprehend. Well, I just want to take a break from that. My designs have always been simple, so I don't see any reason why my content can't be. So yeh, here's my attempt at being straight up to the readers. Hope it works.

D7 | Historical Progression

Version 1.0 is the only version of this site that I would call a "complete" site. It's the one I'm most proud of. It was the baby project, if you will, the one that gave me my first real experience of web design. Versions 2.0 and 3.0 are the first two transition phases that I went through. 1.0 had a large amount of content already built into the site before the launch, so after it was launched, I got lazy and barely updated. After a while, I finally decided it was time for something new. It was appropriate, I suppose, since I was moving halfway across the country, I was physically in a state of transition. 4.0's catalyst was actually that, um, I needed to do a website for a class. Erm, yeh.

Moving on, 5.0/Red Pocket was the first true attempt since 1.0 to create a complete site. It's the design I'm most in love with. Something about the nature and the feel of it makes me really happy. But a problem arose: The site architecture sucked. Really, pop-up windows get horrendously annoying. I've always catered to the masses (i.e., Netscape-friendly designs), so I had to use pop-ups and other horrendously annoying tactics to make sure everything looked nice on everything else (except maybe Lynx). So I got sick of that and did 6.0, which was basically a call for super simplicity in design with a twinge of the futuristic. Or something. I liked it. 6.0, unfortunately, was the first one that I took down because I simply didn't like the content anymore. I guess it gave me a rock hard feeling of seriousness when I went to write in it. Everything felt too abstract, too off the wall.

And we've arrived at 7.0. Who knows what's next? I've got a stash of pictures I took in Times Square that I'm itching to use. Could that be 8.0? We'll have to see.