About
Hello and Salaam (سلام)
Welcome to sorou.sh, my home on the web. I'm Soroush Javidi, an Iranian currently pursuing a PhD degree in Signal Processing at Imperial College, London. When I'm not researching, I'm designing websites (or sleeping)!
My name is pronounced 'so-roosh' and looks like 'سروش' when written in Farsi. I like my name so much that I wanted to have a domain with the same name! : )
I enjoy creating beautiful, simple yet functional websites and have been involved in web design and development for the past +6 years. Browse the portfolio to see some of my work. My tools of trade are: XHTML and CSS for the structure and design, and I use JavaScript and PHP+MySQL to bring things together.
Feel free to get in touch to say hi or to ask regarding my web design work. I like getting nice friendly emails!
How this website came to be
Ok, you know about me, what about this site?
This is not my first website, I've had a personal website before, but it was hosted on a free hosting. I moved my web home three times, but decided in December 2007 to finally set up a "real" website where I can share my interests and my designs. And here it is! It took a few months to get the website to the state that you're seeing now!
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The website is built on Drupal, a great Content Management System (CMS), moulded into shape with XHTML, CSS and PHP and hosted by the wonderful Slicehost.
The website is designed and coded by me, and the theme is called "Hafez". Why? Because Hafez was a great 14th century Iranian poet born in Shiraz (where I was born) and is one of my favourite Iranian poets.
The header of the website features the inner part of the dome of his tomb – also known as Hafezieh – and is taken from a colourful photo shot by Patrick C. (dynamosquito). Likewise, the footer is decorated with a sketch of the Hafezieh based on the photo by Ivan M. (ajvhan). So now you know how the the tomb looks like! I'm greateful to these two guys for their photography and for sharing their work.
The website's main blog content is accessible through RSS, if you're the feed reading type! RSS feeds are also available for a selection of other content, such as my recent links, photography and my tumblelog.
