After releasing the India 60 wallpaper, which was created for India’s 60th Independence day, I started putting together a web page based on the wallpaper. The intention here was to make it easier to get to the original photographs used in the wallpaper, and this effort resulted in a page matching the wallpaper, with each image linking to the original photograph.

But, while I was creating the wallpaper page, I started to wonder what a web site based on the design of the wallpaper would be like. So, I started putting together a new site, and to keep things simple I decided to make it a site with links related to Indian news, videos, images, and podcasts. This effort culminated in India60.com.

Now, I am probably breaking quiet a few norms with this design, and some of you w ho stick to the preachings of the design gods, might cringe at it. One of the obvious ones being horizontal scroll. There is a little used mouse feature which is perfect for this site and to get around the horizontal scroll issue. If you keep the scroll wheel pressed as you move the mouse around in the browser window, you can move the page in any direction, kind of like the hand tool in Photoshop.

India 60 is still an experiment in progress, and in a future post I will try and share some of the technical aspects of the site. Check it out, and do share your thoughts.