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Ibleed in html and CSS and an itsy bitsy little bit of javascript
I’m a Web Standards Consultant and Front End Web developer.
Why should you care about Web Standards and unobtrusive workflow?
Because working this way results in websites that load faster, are accessible to more users, and cost less to maintain.
“Nils is a renaissance man. He not only does (x)html and css, but also design, illustration and photography. He's also a fearless early adapter, always looking for new ways to improve his code and way of working.”
Meg Grant
Freelance web developer
Worked with Nils at Eden { Design & Communication (Edenspiekermann)
“I've engaged Nils for his passionate expert skills in Front End Development. His XHTML, CSS, Cross Browser compatibility and Web Standards knowledge is simply rare. With his timely delivery of the end product, i'm sure i'll engage him again and again in the future.”
Nick Pan Projects Director hired Nils for projects at Convertium
Born and raised in The Netherlands and schooled as a Master of Arts in Film Studies. During these studies I was sidetracked by something called the World Wide Web in 1995 and it has been both my work- and playfield ever since.
Years of self teaching and working for several companies eventually lead to landing a position at Eden, now Edenspiekermann before moving to Singapore in 2007.
I'm usually found at one of the Kopitiams sitting with my laptop wearing shorts & flip-flops. Occassionally I listen to punk, rock, metal & sometimes even glam-pop.
The image of a cake consisting of 3 layers is quite accurate to describe this workflow. The markup and content form the base layer, the HTML. On top of that is a presentational layer, being everything that makes a site look the way it was designed: CSS, images, fonts. The third layer is actually an optional one. It's the behavioural layer, meaning interactive elements, widgets such as open and close functionality etc. I consider this layer optional because a website should still work and look right without this layer.
Working this way has a few bonuses:
I have been working in this way for years. And plenty of big agencies work the same way.
And if some don't, they should.
Listed, the workflow looks like this:
Every layer is separate from the others, not only in theory but also in the fact that each layer resides in its own file. Content (HTML) separated from Presentation (CSS) and Behaviour (Javascript).
