Q: Why English?
A: I know a lot of people around the world.
To communicate with them I need to use English.
And I just have not enough time to
translate everything so I had to make a decision.
But: as you can see I am not an English
native speaker, so I will have some mistakes
in my sentences - please send me an email
when you can recommend any improvements!
Q: Why are some page written in German?
A: For some pages I use German:
Mostly for historical reasons,
what is always a good excuse for anything unusual ;-)
Q: Why do you use landscape orientation with navigation on the left side?
A: Most computer screens are landscape as well!
With landscape orientation there is
more space in the vertical for content.
Q: Your web site looks terrible in my browser!
A: This site is not and will not be optimized for any specific browser,
instead it conforms with the standards as much as possible.
I by myself use only Safari, Chrome and Firefox.
And no, I don’t want to do any adjustments for browsers who are unable to comply with standards.
Please use a good browser!
Q: Your web site has no fancy design (or: is ugly)! Why?
A: I take good design very serious!
I am very interested in design,
layout, typography and related
topics like architecture.
But I am not a designer!
So I stick with my handmade design until I
have more time to develop something
better or find someone who can do this.
This site is made using Jekyll, Markdown and the Bootstrap CSS framework.
I use Safari to check the layout and play with CSS.
Development takes place on MAC OS X. Tools: git, MarkdownPro, Vi.
Internet hosting is done on a Linux (Ubuntu) virtual server running Apache.