Portfolio - Ongoing projects
Solarrex
2008
The real estate and solar panel business of a friend of mine. Graphic design by Sabine Hoerlin.
[ Solar Website ]
[ Real Estate Website ]
Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence in Europe
Dissens e.V. project.
June 2006 - August 2008
Yatta! What started as a trilingual website for a European project is now a site in 17 languages with a searchable database. My sister colaborated on this project.
[ Website ]
Experiments
Just playing... Everything my clients won't let me do. This page includes some of the designs used as alternative stylesheets on jarmin.com and nadp-uk.org
[ Experiments ]
datenbanktiger
2007
My sister's little business. This is the design I made for her, but this is the one she wanted.
[ Website ]
National Association of Disability Practitioners
Since November 2001.
An organization for disability workers in UK academic institutions. A standard-compliant CSS layout design where 100% accessibility was a priority. Redesigned in January 2007: Three-column layout plus styleswitcher.
[ More Information ]
[ Website ]
Dissens e.V.
Since March 2005
Dissens e.V. is a non-profit NGO that provides advisory, education and research services in the field of adult education, youth and gender work.
Redesigned August 2006
[ Website ]
Betriebliche Praktikumsplätze für Jungs
Dissens e.V. project.
March - April 2007
A simple front end for a database designed by my sister Antje.
[ Website ]
"Unser Platz"
Since March 2005
"Unser Platz" (Our Site) is a project of Dissens e.V., whose aim is to foster participation in sports activities in Marzahn-Hellersdorf (Berlin). The main target group is kids and young people. Which is why the website is a bit "loud".
[ Website ]
Foxberghof
Since February 2006
Seminar venue in Paaren, near Berlin.
Only a couple of pages so far. Just a quick fix for a friend in need of a way to reach people and be found.
[ Website ]
Impact Associates
Since December 2005
A UK consultancy in disability issues within post 16 educational institutions.
[ Website ]
ATOP Limited - Assessment and Training of People
Since April 2005
ATOP Ltd. provides assessment and training services in the field of disability in higher education.
[ Website ]
Tanzschule Manhold
Since 1999
My parents' business site (a ballroom dance school in Germany). An old design with personality.
[ More Information ]
[ Website ]
CCH Confederation of Co-operative Housing
Since 1998
Major re-design in 2003
A decade of involvement with the co-operative movement in England brought me to my first long-term commitment as webmaster.
[ More Information ]
[ Website ]
Completed projects
Brain.he
July - November 2005
This colourfull website is aimed at people dealing with learning difficulties in higher education institutions in the UK.
[ Website ]
Adocom
January 2005
Freelance projects for Adocom, Dallgow, Germany.
2 CSS Layout Designs, of which one was used:
Access Summit
December 2002 to March 2003
This support site for students with disabilities offered me the opportunity to apply all the things I'd learned in recent years, to write the good standard-compliant and valid code, and to try another tableless CSS layout.
DEMOS Project
2000 - 2003
A Higher Education project based at the Manchester Metropolitan University to develop material for staff disability awareness.
[ More Information ]
[ Website ]
MMU Student Services / Learning Support
2002
The websites for the MMU Student Services and Learning Support Unit, which urgently needed some accessibility, usability and information structure added to them.
[More Information ]
[ Website ]
EDNER Project
2001
The dissemination website for a three year project by the Centre for Research in Library & Information Management (CERLIM), aimed at academics. This work included the management of the group's Intranet.
[ More Information ]
[ Website ]
NDT National Development Team
2001
A website for the National Development Team, a non-profit organisation that works for people with learning disabilities. This site has now been redesigned.
[ More Information ]
Toucan Europe Ltd.
1998 - 2000
The sites I designed while working for Toucan are relics from pre-standards days. HTML 4.0 Transitional with a comparatively basic stylesheet. Toucan redesigned its site since then. My old design lasted 4 years.
Accessibility was my priority from the very beginning. However, back in 1998 this simply meant removing all FONT tags from the HTML and labelling images with ALT attributes. My earliest sites were made for Netscape 3. CSS layout was still in the distant future.
For Toucan Europe I developed and maintained a number of ESF funded project websites. Some of them are still online:
- Millennium Volunteers (offline)
- Developing Employment in the Information Society (now offline). For this site I also maintained a subject-specific weblog from 1999 - 2000.
- TAD - Telematics and Disability.
- Online Information on Employment and Training Opportunities for Disabled People (ON-LINE) (a pity that some projects don't live on).
- Pandora Project (offline)
- Teleweb - Information and support for teleworkers (offline)
Guides
Accessible Web Design
A collation of tips, guidelines and resources for web designers, who wish to make their websites accessible to visitors with disabilities and older or assistive technology. Focuses on techniques but includes chapters on evaluation, barriers to access, legislation, usability, writing for the web and more. »
DEMOS Accessibility Guide
A version of the original Jarmin.com Accessibility Guide. This guide includes extra information on accessibility techniques used on the DEMOS site (following the WAI guidelines) and a number of demonstrations on how the site looks under a variety of circumstances. »
Guide to Metatags
Early 2000 project for University. A beginners guide to the use of metatags in web documents. »
Other publications
Case study for UKOLN (the UK Office for Library Networking) : Standards and Accessibility Compliance for the DEMOS Project Web Site.
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