Starting point
In all websites I built and build, starting point was not to conform to the HTML rules defined by the W3C, but to reach the effect my customer desired in as many browsers as possible, taking into account the quirks of those browsers. After all, it's all about what the user sees. Stability, in this, went and does go before flashiness, and I regularly build things that I don't find pretty anyway - just as long as the customer is happy, and I gave him solid advice before he took his decisions.
Disclaimer
Although some Websites I (partly) built and/or maintained are now gone, and I have distanced myself from the actual building more and more over the years, some items of my portfolio remain online. Those are the links you find here.
Except for Track, Comrac and Fjodor, I am not involved with or responsible for current maintenance of either site or server for any of these sites, so if one of these links doesn't work I would be grateful to hear it from you, but I would be unable to fix that.
- Comrac - 2000 - visual impression
Site for hardware supplier (of, amongst others, myself, and, formerly, One Good Solution). Site is, however, not dedicated to hardware but to the software Comrac also sells. This site is completely mine. Its latest version went online October 7th, 2000. The assignment was to 'build something that resembles www.designcad.com'. I have tried to do better than the original.
- Comrac - 2003 - visual impression
In 2003 Comrac decided to expand activities considerably - and so a new site had to be built. This became (the 1996 GlobalChallenge experiment and some site-elements I built for Wegener eMedia aside) the first site in which I used DHTML and CSS(2), because it was valid at last: from Comrac.com's site statistics over the previous period, we had namely learned that it was only looked at by browsers supporting this. Moreover, it was functional: because of the larger quantity of menu-items, a DHTML dropdown-structure was no longer a superfluous luxury.
- ESHG - 1997 - visual impression
This site (offline by now), for a convention of Ophtalmologists in Lissabon, Portugal, I built completely, for GlobalXS, save the black and white pictures and the JavaScript within the form, which was coded by Coen Rijkaart.
- Fjodor - 2001 - visual impression
Friend Buis, an ex-secondary-schoolmate, turned professional photographer, with whom I once made my only book ('Allemaal Haarlemmers', photos made by him and text written by me, has used his web-addresses, fjodor.com and fjodor.nl, as promotional material succesfully for some time now. This new site was entirely designed by himself, and entirely built by me. The thing was not meant for Netscape, because complete accordance with its MSIE-version was impossible given the desired layout, and because it was outside of the job parameters.
- GBB - 2002 - visual impression
Built for Wegener eMedia. Graphics by Sonja Snoek, HTML-base by myself. Uses the PHP/MySQL backend Jordy Querner built for zCool, which as 'ZMS' for GBB serves two sites: the one for GBB (this is the company site for the joint delivery effort of Telegraaf, PCM, NDC and Wegener, who are all major publishers of regional newspapers in the Netherlands) and Nieuwsbrengers (the deliveryboys-recruiting- and -loyalty-development-site for it). Technical project management for the building of the site: Sonja Snoek. Technical project management for the implementation of the ZMS: yours truly. Proves, like the GBB-site does, what RaceTrack should have become proof of: that the strategy, cooked up as early as 1996 by yours truly, to pair carefully handcrafted HTML to a light and nimble Content Management System pays off.
- Gironet - 1998 - visual impression
Built for MultiAccess. The previous site's skeleton was mine (but not the graphics and layout). It was also maintained by me for six months. It existed for a year and was then replaced by a new site June 1st, 1999.
- 't GoeieHuys Vastgoed - 2000 - visual impression
Built with Willem Pieter Barentz, my colleague at WeM Concept & Design. Graphics (but for the photos of real estate) and layout are his, skeleton mine.
- GlobalXChange - 1997 - visual impression
Built for GlobalXS. Graphics by EveryAge. Functionality delivered by Webnet. Financial site featuring Amsterdam stock EXchange information. Gone down somewhere in early 1999.
- GlobalXS - 1996 - visual impression
Now part of Cybercomm. The first website of GlobalXS (where I built and ran the online pr as my former business partner Adrianus Warmenhoven built and maintained its serverpark), which existed from '96 through to '99 was made by me, its graphics were developed under my supervision, and I maintained it for years together with Stijn de Jong.
- ICO '98 - 1994 - visual impression
Built for One Good Solution by order of Eurocongres (which itself was built by Factotum). Only the background graphic and the HTML are mine.
- Legalweb - 1997 - visual impression
Built for GlobalXS. Graphics by EveryAge, except for the ugly logo. Yes, that is mine, but I am not a graphics developer.
- Merkenbureau Hendriks & Co. CV - 1994 - visual impression
Bilingual site, built for One Good Solution. The link above leads to the intact image, no longer available at its original index, due to circumstances beyond my control. Skeleton and graphics are mine (logo delivered by customer, reprocessed by me). This site was one of the first to run under Roxen and is therefore able to effortlessly change randomly between five different backgrounds each time the page is loaded.
- Murder - 1996 - visual impression
Testsite, built to find out whether Adobe Pagemill was a good product for building corporate sites. The answer was 'no', but it did leave me with a cute thingumabob.
- Netface - 1995 - visual impression
Finally gone offline early november 1999. Built for One Good Solution. Skeleton and graphics were mine, in constant referral to the customer, who defined layout and structure.
- NIEUWSBRENGERS - 2002 - visual impression
Built for Wegener eMedia. Graphics by Sonja Snoek, HTML-base by myself. Uses the PHP/MySQL backend Jordy Querner built for zCool, which as 'ZMS' for GBB serves two sites: the one for GBB (this is the company site for the joint delivery effort of Telegraaf, PCM, NDC and Wegener, who are all major publishers of regional newspapers in the Netherlands) and Nieuwsbrengers (the deliveryboys-recruiting- and -loyalty-development-site for it). Contains (externally linked) content spit out by and from zCool (HTML for this part by Sonja Snoek). Technical project management for the building of the site: Sonja Snoek. Technical project management for the implementation of the ZMS: yours truly. Proves, like the GBB-site does, what RaceTrack should have become proof of: that the strategy, cooked up as early as 1996 by yours truly, to pair carefully handcrafted HTML to a light and nimble Content Management System pays off.
- One Good Solution - 1993 - visual impression
The company I started in 1994 with Adrianus Warmenhoven and Dietmar V. Jaschusch. The first Presence Provider in the Netherlands. Skeleton by me, but its gone, because the server software no longer generates the HTML it was told to at the time. Graphics developed by Adrianus Warmenhoven, layout partly his. I maintained it until 1998, together with Stijn de Jong and Adrianus.
- PC Magazine - 1996 - visual impression
Built for One Good Solution. Testsite for a contest held by this magazine, in which it was our (Adrianus Warmenhoven, who developed the design and graphics and did the JavaScript, and me, skeleton and part of the layout) primary goal to produce a fast, unique base for a corporate identity to be applied across it later.
- RaceTrack - 2000 - visual impression
HTML and content-graphics by yours truly, structural graphics and design by Willem Pieter Barentz, also maintained it until and including june 25th, 2000. I maintained it again from july 4th until the end of october. After that, it died because the parties (WeM, REP and a few external ones) involved could not reach agreement on content delivery.
- Stichting Nederland No.1 op de Electronische Snelweg - 1995 - visual impression
Gone offline early november 1999. Built for One Good Solution. Skeleton and graphics were mine, in constant referral to the customer, who defined layout and structure.
- Track - 2000 - visual impression
This site, frontend to a search engine and directory index built by WiseGuys for WeM, I developed and built with WeM Concept & Design, a three man team I built for WeM. It uses webbuilding principles I developed over the years, and perfected with this team. They combine to make it a fast site with great managability. Its two predecessors, both built by NetCast, were maintained by me and an editorial team now gone, from 1998 to late september 2000.
- Verbex Voice Master - 1994 - visual impression
Built for One Good Solution. Graphics ripped by order of the customer, layout and skeleton mine.
- Wegener eMedia - 2002 - visual impression
Built for Wegener eMedia. Graphics by Willem Pieter Barentz, HTML by myself. Uses the PHP/MySQL backend Jordy Querner built for zCool, which as within Wegener eMedia is 'managed' by two departments: Sales and Marketing. Proves, like GBB, NIEUWSBRENGERS and zCool do, what RaceTrack should have become proof of: that the strategy, cooked up as early as 1996 by yours truly, to pair carefully handcrafted HTML to a light and nimble Content Management System pays off.
- XSPerformance Casting - 1997 - visual impression
Built for GlobalXS. Ferri Somogyi's casting agency (he is a well known Dutch soap actor). All graphics were made by me, except for the photograph within the logo (which I reprocessed from the delivered copy), the logo and the photographs. Layout mine up to the results pages. Design almost entirely by Adrianus Warmenhoven (his also the idea to make this site as Windowie as possible).
- zCool - 2002 - visual impression
Built for Wegener eMedia. Graphics by Rogier Strobbe, Jordy Querner made the editorial backend for it in PHP and MySQL, Malmberg, Maximedia, OOIPtech and On Stage were external parties cooperating, I was technical project manager and HTML-coder. zCool is everything RaceTrack should have been: a nimble, fast, Unix-based site with a good, fast, nimble and flexible Content Management System in PHP for the editorial team behind it. It was mainly the latter that RaceTrack lacked. That, however, is not the only reason I've added screengrabs from it: this CMS spits out HTML as Wegener eMedia Concept & Design produces it, incorporating textual content I was the editor of. Thank God and Adrianus Warmenhoven for Jordy Querner.
Also built:
Eurogather Congress Makers - visual impression
For One Good Solution. No longer exists, to my knowledge.
GBC, for GlobalXS. Has been replaced by a new site.
Global Challenge, for GlobalXS. Was to be a sponsorfunded project centered around a trip by Peter Stuivenberg. Was a functional online game containing realvideo, partly made in DHTML, which would run parallel to the journey... ...and not.
Something completely different:
Maxposter
Maxposter 2
Maxposter 3
And finally, I am also the guy behind Dutch and dialect-of-the-Hague translations of Leech FTP, a freeware FTP-client.
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