About

Here you can find a variety of information about Pascal and his website. Use the navigation on the right to pick your poison. This section is a work in progress!

The Author

Pascal is just a regular engineering student from somewhere in Germany. He enjoys web-development, good books, and lots of cake. More info:

  • Hopelessly addicted to coffee.
  • Riding the Apple Bandwagon and loving it.
  • Music makes the world go round.

The Site

Backend

The site is powered by ExpressionEngine, with a few enhancements. Specifically, I'm using the TruncHTML and Twitter Timeline plugins as well as the Accessible Captcha and Required Category extensions.

Design

After five or so iterations of different designs, I finally found one to stick with. It started out as an idea for a 'chalky' look, but while styling the sidebar I stumbled on the pale-blue on black style. Not willing to drop the chalk completely, the content got a new look. So now it still has a grungy wrapper, but the inner portion is clean and easy to read.

Web Standards

Every page on this site should validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. The CSS also validates.

Accessiblity

I want this website to be available to everyone, so by design it was made to accommodate a wide range of people. If you're having difficulty using this page or have suggestions on how it could be improved, please let me know.

Credits

Thanks goes to...

  • Sean Catchpole for his great idTabs JQuery plugin
  • EllisLab for an amazing CMS.