... published January 14, 2008
One of my hobbies, actually my favorite hobby, is to write HTML, CSS and PHP code. Or better: creating websites.
If I’m not working on an existing website, I like to think about creating a new one. Based on that, I thought it would be interesting to share my personal steps in creating websites, ranging from the first idea to the boredom of just maintaining the final page.
You can devide the whole process in 6 steps:
- The Idea
- Evaluation and Preparation
- Creation and Testing
- Reviewing and Optimizing
- Release
- Maintenance
Continue…
... published January 12, 2008
A few days ago Matt at Webmaster-Source and Michael at Pro Blog Design published articles about optimizing the load time of a blog and plugins to get more comments
Influenced by their articles I decided to review and optimize my own blog. Some of the mentioned plugins and optimizations I had already in use, a few I added as result of reading said articles:
You could call this some kind of heavy maintenance, so I’m now interested on some feedback. How do you like the new comment plugins? Does the site load slower or faster or did it stay the same? Any reply is much appreciated, especially feedback about the loading time of my blog 
Update:
I moved all javascript used on my site to the foot which should reduce the loading time a lot more.
Please let me know if something is now broken
... published January 9, 2008
As I have the fortune to learn C#/C++ at school I thought it is a good idea to share what I learned and what I’m learning. Additionally it helps me to repeat what I learned and I can make sure that I really understood it.
Here we go:
Hello World
At first we need a program which allows us to write and compile C#/C++ code. We are using the Borland C++ Builder but as I’m a fan of open-source programs I’m training my knowledge using the Bloodshed Dev-C++ program unless I’m forced to use Borland.
Now let’s have a look at our first program. Continue…
... published January 7, 2008
A friend of mine told and showed me this interesting browser game.
It is called “MyMiniCity” and it is very easy to play, if you can actually say “playing”:
First of all you create your own mini city (or not, if you prefer helping a friend…)
My mini city is called Coruin City, not a fancy name but I have to live with it. After you created your city you visit it each day once. You can also bug your friends or fellow bloggers to visit the page each day.
When you or someone else visits the page, a new citizen will “move” to your city, making it grow. Once a certain amount of citizen are living in your mini city, you get more options to increase parts of your mini city. These options are:
The first option exists right from the beginning and since my mini city is still young I can’t tell when I will unlock the next option. Once I unlock the next option(s), I’ll update this post.
I hope I woke your interest for this neat browser game. Let me know if you also start a mini city or if you decided to help me with my mini city.
Update 2008-01-30: I finally unlocked the “Increase Industry” option with 50 citizens
... published January 1, 2008
I wish you a happy new year.
My fellow bloggers Matt at Webmaster- Source and Michael at Pro Blog Design reviewed their year 2007, including a list of their best articles. Since I’m new to this business and my plans didn’t turn out like intended I will hold it a bit like Slevi while doing some kind of review.
What happened 2007?
In the first few months of the year I decided to re-do my website and it got a design close to this one. However, after playing with “AJAX” and doing other “fancy” things with my website I decided to start an own blog and trying to become a problogger, if possible.
So I got my own blog. That was on April the 22nd. You can read the start article here, please excuse the lack of professionalism as it was my first blog post ever. After writing some more articles I happened to stumbleupon to either a post at ProBlogDesign or Webmaster-Source. I don’t remember exactly where it was, or do I remember the article. Anyway, the article made me review my blogging style.
The quality of my articles was…uh…ok, yet the environment didn’t fit. I then made an own design instead of using the (although modified) standard wordpress design.
Another article made crop the categories and doing some other tweaks. I also installed some plugins and some more work made the current design of my blog.
Now as the look was professional I needed to work on the content. I believe the categories I chose are ok, but then real life went bad on me. It turned out that I had almost no time at the end and my last professional article is dated September 15th. You can find it under the title “Useful Tools for validating HTML, CSS and Accessibility“.
What will 2008 bring?
