I‘m an Interface Designer and Web Developer from Germany. Here are some example of my work at my one-man company
After so many month of hard work I’m happy to announce my book »Responsive Webdesign – Reaktionsfähige Websites gestalten und umsetzen«. It’s a German book about designing and implementing responsive web design and it covers the important things that came up in the last 2 years.
I don’t write much on this blog, but this conference needs a few lines of praise. I’m sitting in the train back home from the great beyond tellerrand conference that took place in Düsseldorf on Monday and Tuesday and some accompanying workshops on Sunday before.
I’m just wondering how to use the header and footer element the right way.
Although those elements are not meant to be presentational I most often find people using a likewise presentational structure for marking up their articles (header always on top, footer at the end) which doesn’t feels right to mee
I read Elliot’s first post of the ’new’ year a few minutes ago about joining Chris Shiflett’s idea of revitalising blogging again. This idea is great as I feel similar when it comes to blogs.
Currently I’m developing a website where I wanted to take advantage of the CSS property background-position-y to save some time and code while positioning a CSS sprite. It works great in Safari/Chrome but I was surprised that it’s not working in Firefox.
And lastly, the question of immersion. 3D films remind the audience that they are in a certain “perspective” relationship to the image. It is almost a Brechtian trick. Whereas if the film story has really gripped an audience they are “in” the picture in a kind of dreamlike “spaceless” space. So a good story will give you more dimensionality than you can ever cope with.«
I could write a whole lot about what I achieved the last year and where I failed and what to improve in 2011. But as my goals will change over the year anyway, it’d be best to write about what is currently important to me.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.«
Carl Gustav Jung
Wise words! You could also adapt it to Design when working on new layouts: Looking outside (at other people’s work) is just influence, looking inside (at the content and its meaning) is inspiring.
While styling unordered text lists for my blog I was searching for a way to change the color of the bullets. There is no way to achieve this with the standard list style types if you don’t want to use additional markup. But there’s a solution by only using CSS – and it’s all CSS 2.1, so even IE 8 understands that.
During the weekend I thoroughly enjoyed reading the »8 Faces« magazine edited by Elliot Jay Stocks. I have to say it’s a long time since I had so much pleasure browsing and reading a magazine from cover to cover. So I felt to write a couple of lines about it.