Mohit Aneja

September 24th, 2009 in Interviews

1. Welcome to THECSSAWARDS and please introduce yourself.

Hi, My name is Mohit Aneja (aka CJ) and I run CSSJockey.com as a freelance web developer based in City Beautiful Chandigarh, India. I enjoy web design, development, blogging, sharing best practices, music and anything to do with good food and coffee. How I get into this field? Well I started playing with computers in 1996 and learned designing tools and programming languages. I shared my knowledge on answers.yahoo.com for a while and became a top contributor in just 4 months. People were very happy with my precise answers and solutions with reference links. One day Yahoo banned my account as one of the reference website I shared was later updated to a torrent sharing website. I couldn't get my account activated as per Yahoo's policy so I decided to create a personal blog (http://www.mohitaneja.com) to share best practices. I got a few requests for projects as people liked the design I created for my own website. I completed around 40 projects in the year 2008 and it was getting harder for me to work with my job as Senior Operations Analyst at DELL International Services India. I quit my job in December 2008 and started CSSJockey.com to live my passion everyday.

2. Are you a self taught designer or have you been to a design school?

I am proud to say that I am a self made man and learned everything by myself with a lot of help from Google. I've never been to any design school as their teachings are limited to their curriculum, however, there's no end to learning.

3. How can you define yourself?

Designer

Artist

Other

4. What is your fauvorite browser?

Explorer

Firefox

Safari

Chrome

No one of them!

5. OS?

Mac

No one of them!

6. Colours , grayscale or black and white?

Colours

Grayscale

Black and white

7. What is ur fauvorite software?

Photoshop

Illustrator

Fireworks

Dreamweaver

Notepad

Others

8. what projects are you currently working on?

Creating a project management application (PHP/AJAX), a few WordPress Plug-ins and client projects of course.

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