Posts about Work
Reusability thanks to modular coding
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My erstwhile mentor in Brienz taught me throughout our years working together that if a website functionality is worth creating, it’s worth creating so that it can be used in more than one project. Programme once, install many times. This is a credo I’ve maintained since I started programming for content management systems and one…
I’m not a fan of one-page websites, as a rule. But making sure that they load as quickly as possible goes a long way to making them acceptable.
How to make a bad impression
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A cold call from Bharti Consulting Services SARL in Paris quickly escalates into harassment and arrogance.
Technical case study: Bike To Work
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Back in 2011, the organizers of Bike To Work Switzerland approached my employer !frappant Webfactory to re-develop their website and the participants’ admin system. I worked with a third-party usability consultant to re-think and re-design the project, before I carried out the design work in Photoshop and the team and I subsequently produced the website on the base
Work In Progress
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A random image to keep you interested, while I continue to work on a new layout and technical features for the website.
Brain Dump
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A great coincidence, after yesterday’s post, that US web developer Jason Santa Maria has linked to a list of tips by Pixar story artist Emma Coats, who has tweeted a series of “story basics” recently: guidelines that she learned from her more senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories. The tips are just as
Squirrel!
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One of the greatest problems that I face on a daily basis is that of a lack of focus. I love to do so many things – taking and editing photos, creating designs for websites and books, programming – that when I’m fired up, it’s difficult to know where to start and where – or
Flexible by default
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One of the great things about being responsible for the technical direction of a team of developers is that you get to bring your ideas to a project and, in many instances, try out new techniques which would otherwise only be seen on a personal website or blog. I wrote at the beginning of the
Moving across Bern
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After two and a half years with international marketing and p.r. agency Burson-Marsteller, today is my last day in the Crossmedia team in Bern.
My biggest work project in 2010 was the re-building of the wide network of websites for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region of Burson-Marsteller.
All Staff 2010
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Photos from a Burson-Marsteller company trip to canton Thurgau in north eastern Switzerland.
Desk Memories – Burson Marsteller
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I’ve been going through my website recently to tidy up some of the older archived articles and came across this collage of the desk where I worked in Brienz until 2008. Since then, I’ve been working in Bern and I decided that about time I took a new collage of photos here too.
Work project honoured by Anthrazit magazine
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A website which I re-developed and re-launched during 2009 was awarded as one of the “Best 200 Swiss Websites of the Year”.
Crossmedia Team at Burson-Marsteller
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A gallery of portrait images I’ve taken of team colleagues at work, for use on the team website.
Technical case study: Rütli
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Details of the new website for Swiss national historic location Rütli, combined with a brief explanation of the meadow’s history.
