I do not spend all my days working on Joomla modules and reading astronomy websites. Alas, sometimes I have to work for money (I don’t have as such a problem with work, but I rather work for fun than for money).

I’m happy to report that one  project I was involved with – http://zeitzeugengeschichte.de/ – has been nominated for the rather prestigious Grimme Online Award, the second time one of ‘my’ projects won a nomination (actually this is a project of the non-profit http://www.metaversa.de under the lead of Birgit Marzinka) . Strangely enough I’m listed as graphics designer, which is not true – I adapted the CMS of the partner organization kanalb.org for the purposes of the project. The website is sort of only the tip of the iceberg – in the projects teenager learn how to conduct interviews with Zeitzeugen – contemporary witnesses of (at the moment) Nazi Germany (Metaversa plans to extend the project to cover the more recent german history), so much of the work is done offline. The site merely presents the result.

Another project I worked on was not nominated for any prices, but was still very well received – the Berlin agency kakoii.de mounted a campaign (offline and web) for the Aktion Kinder- und Jugendschutz, a projects against violence against and amongst adolescents and children. http://www.du-kannst-entscheiden.de/ was build with Wordpress using a design provided by kakoii.

And speaking of wordpress, a website and application for the non-profit Europeans For Peace that was build on the multiuser version of wordpress is currently in beta testing and will hopefully soon go public. I’m not necessarily a big wordpress fan, but if it’s used for it’s intended purpose and plugins are coded carefully it’s an excellent platform (I guess I should rather say I don’t think it’s a good choice as general purpose CMS).

And then Im working on a small social networking application and on a museum website which will both be worth some further bragging when they go live….

I’m a bit amazed myself; I went freelance out of necessity, not because I particularly felt like it back then, and I was a little afraid that I would have to work for Mom-and-Pop stores (nothing wrong with them except that they have no money). Instead I have assembled a rather impressive portfolio, even if I say so myself, and that doesn’t even include some big projects I’m not allowed to advertise.

I guess I’m doing something right then.