Mobile Phone Service Providers
Yesterday I finally got my new phone, a Nokia N95 8GB, and I’m pretty happy with it’s functions, the look & feel and, after all, the plain fact that I eventually got a phone with all buttons working again. With…
Grid-Based Design
It’s rather usual in print-design to use grid-based layouts, whereas the web still has to catch up with that (mostly due to the inability of a lot of self-claimed webdesigners I’d say). It’s certainly harder to work with a grid-based…
How NOT to implement a community
Just right now I had to download a kind-of-printable picture of the new Ducati Monster 696 for a Christmas-card we’re doing for our main client Mazda Lietz (no, except for the split page I didn’t have anything to do with…
10 Tipps on how to improve CSS efficiency
Don’t start at the computer. Take pen and paper and think ahead. Scribble, write down ideas, plan your layout and your markup. Try to spot and eliminate problematic sections beforehand. Know HTML out of the pocket and use appropriate markup…
When I’m grown up I want to be a web designer
As a person who originated it’s webdesign-affection in the programmer-world and then switched over to becoming an actual graphics designer I know both sides. I know the problems and misunderstandings, and where they come from. The way of thinking is…
The Content Flood: Quality Tops Quantity
Because my today web-travellings exposed it once again and there are more and more “tools” for this everyday, I’ll throw in my two cents on the current state of the medium we love so much, the internet.
Can AJAX-functionality be loaded dynamically?
Uhm, what? Okay, that’s the basic thought: A user visits the website. PHP recognizes a new session and therefore creates a variable $ajaxAvailable and sets it to false. The first page being displayed to the user only includes one simple…
More reading and going live
Going live The big day. A few minutes ago I decided to write this documentation. To show others how I work on this, to keep myself on track showing me that there is progress despite the the lack of results,…
Rules: CSS Formatting
CSS formatting CSS files bother me since I can think of using CSS. The bigger a CSS ruleset becomes the harder it becomes to keep things separted. If it comes to debugging it can be a real pain to find…
.htaccess: Subdomain & PHP-ErrorDocument
Vor kurzem bin ich zu einem neuen Hosting-Provider umgezogen. Seit dem bastl i an der Einrichtung meiner Seite (wie man, zum Beispiel am falsch-kollatierten Portieren der WP-Datenbank, erkennen kann mit Hürden). I bin ein kleiner Ordnungsfreak, deswegen mag’ i meine…
Preparing the Server
YES DARLING, it’s a SERVER! Not really, though. Just another virtual host. But it will do my low-requirement job, that for sure. I had to change my hosting provider because the ZEND-framework requires PHP > 5.1.4 and my old provider,…
Data? Sources?
Good old friend PHP Yep, PHP was my entry to web development. I instantly fell in love with the intuitive and fast development this language enable me and therefore I was stuck with it. But it has it’s downsides. The…
The idea
Hello & Goodbye I have always been attracted to webdesign. That started back in the days when I attended a highschool for IT. They tried to make us fit in C, Cobol, Java and other humpty-tumpty compiling programming languages. I…