Welcome on the 2012 version of my personal blog/portfolio/website!

The last design was heavily based on a free and pretty good WordPress template called Yoko because I was too busy lazy to make a complete unique theme on my own. But I was never really happy with it, I wanted something special, minimalistic and different. So I invested some time, combined all my WordPress knowledge and built this nice theme which you are using right now.

As you can see it is especially simple, black/white and fast. This is by design, two things were important:

• The focus should be on the content. Pretty much no colors are used on the theme itself. Only the images use colors.
• We recognize pictures much faster then words. So the home page features only images, one image per post. The size of the image tells the visitor how important a particular post is.

If you look at the home page it looks simple and easy to build (for a web developer), but in fact it took me some time to find the right solution for this problem. I tried many different image sizes, CSS floats and also JavaScript solutions like Masonry. In the end, the solution was pretty simple: I’m using 2 Image sizes and 4 CSS classes (from Small to X-Large) and sort the posts myself so they line up in a nice flexible grid. I tell WordPress which image I want to show with a little help by a nice plugin.

The theme was built from scratch and uses the mobile-first approach. During development I used this wonderful sites for placeholder images – you should really consider using them in your projects ;)