We would like to give you an inside view of webfactory and the things we are dealing with in our daily work. The posts in our Inside Blog will be on topics like information architecture, screen and interface design, XHTML/CSS/Javascript and PHP. In our sandbox we are building castles out of tiny pieces of code and design.

20 May 2010

Inspiration break at ADC Summit 2010 and a sneak peek of things to come

From time to time, it's good to raise your head over the rim of your cubicle and take a look around. In a daring attempt to fulfill my desire for an overdue escape from day-to-day work, I ventured to Frankfurt and this year's ADC Summit Expo with projekt-pr's Rüdiger Hahn and Anke Schöneweiß, a freelance graphic designer. 11.000 square metres worth of design samples were waiting for us on this sunny Saturday. read more

10 May 2010

CVS2Mercurial — Or how to escape from servitude

For a long time now, we have been suffering from the limitations and errors of CVS. For almost as long we have been dreaming of a fast, stable and simple version control system (VCS) to replace it. read more

06 May 2010

Templating with PHPTAL: Don't make your designer think (about the wrong things)

In former times, when some of us started to generate dynamic websites using PHP, we tended to generate XHTML output for, let's say, a blog post like this: read more

21 Apr 2010

8 Golden Rules for Apprentices

Figure: Golden section rectangles and spiralLast week, we finally found a second apprentice and completed our team lineup for 2010. Simon Mönch will be joining us from May 1st to learn the craft of software development and Jessica Lazarus starts her apprenticeship for digital media design on August 1st. read more

06 Apr 2010

Bafana, Bafana!

So I was the webfactory's intern "march 2010". Since I'm planning to study Communication Design this fall, I don't only need application-folders filled with endless sketches and samples, but also internships to show my further interest in the field and gain first experiences. read more

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