Portfolio

No commercial work (as if…), just showing off some pages I did - that is, just the xhtml/css parts of them (if even more was involved). Every serious website I did work at involved brighter people then me doing scripting, php and the like.

Virtual Plastic

 

…surgery for Windows. Html done with kmr, default css by me. While VP is an old project - 5+ years online - and this is its 6th of 7th incarnation, it's kinda obvious learning curve is long, it lacks a lot. Text is crammed in boxes with little space, and while most of it validates as xhtml 1.1 strict, semantic markup, accessibility, we didn't know about those at the time. So, no tables, yet just replaced with loads of <div>.

New version, (more) accessible, semantically marked up and taking a slightly different approach re: content is being worked on. Not soon, though.

Digital Dreams

 

Sideproject I did for Virtual Plastic, because I loved some software that vanished from the web. It is supposed to have a look inspired by the software authors old website. Former version used extensive frames and tables, rebuild it without those. Valid xhtml 1.1, but lacks a lot in accessibility, due to non-semantic <div> tagsoup, fixed fontsizes and more…

A (photo)blog

 

Basic setup for a blog, done for a friend (actually made it online for a small while, now gone). Frontpage, sample comment, photo, about pages. Background patterns (it has two stylesheets as laid out by Paul Sowden) by squidfingers. I don't like the red theme much, but the default is nice, and that's my old teddy staring at you ;).

Redllar's software

 

Redllar’s software. A shrine for his projects at first, but he's now in control. Lots of opacity in menu, which doesn’t work in Opera (doesn't look bad there, though). Wouldn't have done that if I knew I'd give it to someone to use, still glad I did, as I like it. Pretty up to date re: whatever standards, I think.

Modspots

 

Small portal page, attempt to strengthen the niche I reside in. Lazy, took the logo from defunkt Modzine site and ‘modded’ that a little. Validating xhtml, but was eager to get something online, so though simple, might lack in other respects…

Former ./notes

 

I used this space to experiment with accessibility before, set up something like a blog. Clearly overdid it, and it turned out rather unfunctional. Overdone, graphically (even older version just had a #FFC background, no pattern and just icons on the sidebar), but also in features. Way to excessive to make true for myself.

What I do think is a bit of an innovative idea is the ‘display options’ button at the top. Pushed, it greys out the page and a bar appears with options (fontsize, accesskeys visible, combined and a ‘no css’ option). Purely based on Paul Sowdens styleswitcher, again, so really nothing new, yet… I just never dealt with issues on accessibility (it breaks the tab key, for instance, or hides it, depending on browser), maybe should one day.

Modzine.net

 

Modzine(.net) - a customization e-zine - was a nice effort by a bunch of people with little time. I just did html/css templates, based on a photoshop mockup by initiator pogrelz, and the logo. Main work was done by pogz and he took it pretty far. It's offline due to time restrictions, pointing to random, related websites.

Sample page when clicking image doesn't do justice to reality (ok, so I only could dig up some old templates). We actually made 6 issues, pogrelz created a desktop image gallery with commenting, php stylesheet switching (with multiple submitted themes), shoutbox and loads more.

Looking back, I find myself responsible for not solving a lot of cross-browser issues, creating another example of <div> tagsoup, semantic meaningless coding, but that should be easily fixable. I still like pogz’ colors, übersimple and flexible layout (though fixed sized menu should go), would like to build on it somewhere in future…

Coming up…

 

 

 

Old and new sites all have a next version coming. It's mostly a time restraint that seems them not coming online anytime soon. Plans are there, seems even necessary people are these days, so we’ll see…