The “Jusos” (while Jusos stands for “Junge Sozialistinnen” -  “Young Socialists” most Jusos are actually not-quite-so-young Social Democrats) are the youth organization of Germanys Social Democratic Party. Freelancing for Panorama 3000 I did the frontend development for the new version of their website.

Working on a pretty tight schedule we decided to publish the nearly feature-complete version of the page and to straighten out the remaining kinks (mostly accessibilty issues and some invalid HTML) in the background, but I’m already quite pleased with the result (but I would be, wouldn’t I).

We switched the backend from Typo [1] to Drupal , which is less clunky and does not require anybody  to learn an otherwise useless scripting language [2]. Clientside scripting was used rather parsimoniously – a flickr badge, pulling a JSON feed from the associated blog, some accordion type of thing – but even so I was glad for Jquerys helpful selector engine.

But the best thing about it (since money can provide only that much motivation) is that, despite all the pressure and everything, it was fun – that was such a brilliant team working on this project (you would be amazed how much ingenuity it takes to make a website look as simple as  this) and lots of wit and laughter and too much, too often asian food at lunchtime.

Oh well then. Tomorrow I’ll take a day off and go motorbiking – I feel I deserve it.

1. as far as I can work out Typos only advantage is that it satisfies the german penchant for overengineered solutions
2. though naturally Drupal comes with its' own set of issues