Hvad har alle andre valgt?
og hvorfor går de den vej?

31-05-2017

Også følger alle andre efter ik'? The Lemming effect.

Nu sprøjter jeg bare BLOG indlæg ud tænker du, 2 dage i træk.
Ej...jeg skriver kun, når der lige er noget som falder mig ind eller jeg kommer i tanke om et emne som kunne være sjovt. Det er ikke så prof gennemtænkt endnu, som du måske tror. Jeg vil også gerne gøre det meget personligt og ikke så stift og firkantet.

Min "forretnings-plan" er at gribe tingene lidt anderledes an og tænke i 'SuperB' løsninger. Selvom jeg selv i en laaaang årrække har gjort tingene på den besværlige måde og lagt alt for mange tanker i en simpel opgave. Ved netop at overanalysere mit/mine behov.

Keep it simple, hvis du ikke vil opfinde den dybe tallerken en gang til.
Hvorfor skal alting, gøres til komplekse og besværlige løsninger?

"Any fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent, it takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction".
Quote: Albert Eeinstein.

Hvorfor bruge millioner på at udvikle 'vores' eget Rejsekort?
Når der HELT sikkert var et eksisterende system man kunne ha' taget ibrug eller simplifiseret opgaven, bare en smule. Hvad har det ikke kostet? I mandetimer? Eller målt i kroner og øre?

Tilbage til emnet:
Som iværksætter/selvstændig kan man tænke alt til døde, før man overhovedet er kommet igang (hvilket jeg selv har prøvet). Mens andre bare kaster sig hovedløst ud i det og ikke har det ene bekrymrings-filter installeret efter det andet.

Nu til valg af hjemmeside opbygning/webdesign delen.
Hvor skal man starte? Kan du snakke HyperText Markup Language? = HTML-isk

Step 1: Køb et domæne navn..."Hva' deeeet?" Hhhhmmmm...
Step 2: Valg af CMS = Content Management System..."Hva' deeeet?"
Step 3: Læs med her...dog på engelsk (men jeg ville gerne finde en guide på dansk, og mange har sikkert forsøgt at lave en).

Min point er her, efter at af fundet vejen retur til web-branchen, at alle vil ha' det der Wooorkspress...Wurdpess...WordPRESS...det alle snakker om og anbefaler til andre.
Uden ligeså meget som at ha' sat sig bare lidt ind i hvad det dog betyder.
Hvilket jeg jo godt kan forstå, når nu 27,5% af ALLE hjemmesider i hele VERDEN benytter dette CMS system. Sådan cirka 75.000.000 hjemmesider.

Og hvad er så årsagen? Hvorfor skal du vælge det?

Jeg er bestemt ikke fortaler eller får penge for at anbefale det. Så er det sagt, jeg troede faktisk i mange år på at Joomla (et andet CMS med sine 6% af marked, Wordpress har 60%) ville indtage den førerpostion, da det jo er teknisk overlegent.
Men DET er så præcis deres SVAGHED, det er for teknisk ;o)
Komplekst og en smule forvirrende at finde rundt i, selvom grundstenene er præcis de samme (PHP & MySQL).
Jeg har forsøgt :o) og bliver ved indtil jeg forstår det 100%, måske kun 98%.

Blev du klogere på hvad du skulle vælge?
Min egen hjemmeside er så bygget op HELT fra bunden med Bootstrap, "Hvaa deeeet???", ja...se det vidste jeg heller ikke for bare 8 mdr siden.
Nu bliver det nørdet!!!

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Hvorfor skriver du på engelsk???

30-05-2017

Jah...hvorfor egentlig det?
Det ved jeg faktisk ikke...hvorfor lyder det mere "smart" end dansk?
Når jeg skal forklare/fortælle om noget computer teknisk?
Det er nok "bare" endnu en arbejdsskade, når ens 'corporate language' har været engelsk i mange år og når man så støder ind i en dansk version af Windows, hvor man SLET ikke kan finde rundt og virker totalt uprofessionel fordi alt er oversat til et "mærkelig" dansk ord.
Derfor lagde jeg også ud med at lave et RENT engelsk CV, da det ligesom lød af mere i mine egne ører.

Jeg har længe gået og tænkt på Humleriddernes sang - "Malerhjerne" fra 1995, som jeg var stor fan af da jeg gik i folkeskole.
Deres skæve lyrik og tilgang til dansk rap gav god mening for mig dengang og det er sjovt at genlytte til som voksen, 22 år senere.

Nu kan jeg ikke få disse 2 linier ud af hovedet:
"Det udstyr vi får til at beskytte os selv,
det ta'r vi af for det irriterer os ihjel..."

Sådan er mit forhold til IT, og moderne IT projekter i øjeblikket.
Hvorfor kan vi i danmark ikke, keep it simpel, og få "lortet" til at virke.
Work smarter, NOT harder (JA, jeg har også arbejdet for AVIS biludlejning 2004-2007, hvis slogan er: 'We Try Harder').

Det udstyr/de IT systemer som skal hjælpe os alle i hverdagen, det irriterer os ihjel, generere endnu mere stress, stjæler vores tid og er til besvær. Det er selvfølgelig ikke ALLE systemer og nu vil jeg ikke nævne nogle navne (HOST, HOST).

Jeg ser det bare igen og igen, små firmaer, selvstændige, private osv. som jo har købt en god computer eller et system som skal HJÆLPE dem i hverdagen. Og ikke gøre livet mere besværligt med daglige opdateringer af software og nye funktioner som ikke er helt gennemtænkt før de bliver frigivet.

Det var så mit første 'blog' indlæg på dansk :)
Det er også klassisk dansk med lidt hverdags brok.


What to exept of the year 2017

15-03-2017

"Not much...this project is now on-hold."
I wrote that on the 21st of february.

I'm back in business!!!
Why this 'doubt' and sudden stop and then why write about it here?
Well, I'm a hounest guy and believe the best in people.

When you decide to start up on your own or execute on a new business idea, there is a LOT of small things you have to consider. It should be easy, BUT suddenly you discover a WHOLE new world of terms and decisions you have to relate to.
Everything from designing your OWN business logo to deciding on a 5 year marked strategy.

Some start-ups jump 10 steps ahead and others have difficulties deciding on step one. I'm sort of in between all those good suggestions and advise you can get out there. No longer in doubt about my own skills and what I have to implement into my very own business 'model' in order to complete my 'mission'.


"Like one time...I bought a pen...at Band Camp..."

01-12-2016

New Logo Like one time at band camp...No sorry, just kidding. If you are old enough to remember THE best movie of all times in 1999.

I actually didn't buy it at band camp...BUT I did buy the new and fancy Apple Pen at a Humac store, this summer. Because I have LIKE ALWAYS wanted a stylus pen, since I was very little and wanted to draw/sketch stuff on the computer (in MS Paint, Win95).
I'm a HUGE fan of all Pixar/Dreamworks movies and the whole computer animated universe, so I had to buy it OF CAUSE. Not any other pen...no no...the iPen. And as it only, like ONLY works on a iPad PRO, I had to order one as well (and YES the front glass is already broken on this expencive piece of hardware).
Sooo...is it any good and you use it daily in your professional work life...ehhh..no, sorry...I WANT to, BUT...and it's actully REALLY nice and handy, like any other Apple product. I'm amazed!!! How realistic the apps and pen makes your drawing/sketching works. It's like on REAL paper and you can use a 'filt pen', 'olie paint' and 'water colours'...all in ONE pen ;o)

I don't need a LOT of tools and have to go out and buy colours, a new canvas every time, a prof easel and so in order to get started.
I just sit on the couch and work my 'magic'. And magic it is...look at THIS (on the right).

It's my new company logo ;o)


"What is 'a good webdesign'/trends in 2016..."

27-11-2016

As I been trying to catch up on my webdesign/editing skills the past few months. I have also noticed some of the 'trends' in 2016.

Like everyone can literally build a website today, it's just a few clicks away on one of the many cloud services, which is provided to us today.
Just go to www.wordpress.com, get started with an account, choose a template/a design and off we go...click, click, pay up, click and click.
Then you'r LIVE and ready to post your content.

It that a good design?
For most people in general, they would be quite impressed and don't think about all the techniques and 'magic' used in the background, just to present it in 'a nice and easy way'. As I always meet people, who are asking 'Can you build my new website?'. I reply, 'Yah, BUT it is gonna cost ya...', and there is ACTUALLY a LOT of work in building a site from ground floor and up, if we are talking about a decent site with cool designs and nice features.

I have also just attented an 'Usability' class. The purpose with this was to learn and adapt some of the latest trends within the BIG webdesign business.
Should you build an OnePage design and make it VERY user friendly or use a more 'classic' design? How about one of the many CMS systems out there on the marked?
Which design would present your business in the best way and attract most users?
As we put many, many, as in MANY thoughts into this and even more technology to understand it.

A good design...Is the one you'r HAPPY with. A design you LIKE.
It can be simple, it can be crazy, it can be ugly or just out of the box.
BUT!!!
Something YOU have made or decided to use on your own.
Not someone else...or the web-guy told you to use ;o)


"An old idea brought to life..."

17-10-2016

Back in the days...I'm talking about 1996...when everything was much simpler and nicer.
I started to work with IT services, customer support and different hardware solutions. My first real job was at a local hardware import business. They had 1000's of different products ranging from cables in all sizes to custom build server units. Back then everything was mounted by hand and tested (in-house). So we had a lot of funny issues with the build quality from vendors all over the world (mainly Taiwan).

After a few years I discovered the Internet and the many possibilities already availible back then, like my first email account (WOOW!), netbanking, search engines, music (MP3's), pictures (GIF's) and movies (old school .mov's and .avi's).
The sky had no limits, with an ISDN connection(128Kbit up/down) and my Intel Pentium II PC running Windows 98SE. I was "armed" and ready to make/develope my very first webdesigns in classic HTML, bits of JavaScripting and a heavy use of GIF animations, using Microsoft's Frontpage(1997-2003). Not the "perfect" setup, but close enough.

Short after Frontpage was released I discovered Macromedia's Dreamweaver (released dec. 1997). I still remembers it's feature "clean up Frontpage HTML". So the poorly MS written HTML would be transformed into world-class nicely coded HTML (ver. 4.0 or 4.01). After messing around with Dreamweaver for a while, server-side programming languages like PHP(in 1995) and ASP(in 2002) came along. I adopted some of the PHP language and slowly build a couple more websites (mainly for private use). See portfolio.

Then I moved out from home in 2003 and away from my birthtown. I moved to Amager (Copenhagen, the BIG city). Which was a huge step in history for mankind, also computer wise (early 2000). So without a job, I build a couple of more websites and continued "my developement" in webdesign. Shortly after my move, I got a job as service agent at AVIS Rent-a-car. Due to the aftermath of the Dot-com era/bubble in Denmark. But I kept on developing some of my website features (now discontinued on BloBBie.dk).

As the years went by, I neglected my webdesigns and "career".
I had a short "flash-back" in 2007, where I left my job to start on my own and with no real experience I built one small CMS system for an ex-colleague. All in HTML, combined with my own PHP and MySQL features. So she could manage the website without my interference. CMS (Content Management) systems like Wordpress was availible, but not widespread in Denmark at that moment in time (in 2007-2008).

10 years later, a lot wiser and with new ideas...I'M BACK.
In the webdesign business, building a new career path. Now with all new features like HTML5, CSS3, responsive one-page designs, a massive use of new graphic features and design possibilities. No one!!! back in 1996 would have thought was possible.

Check out my old portfolio: link

Use the "Wayback Machine" to check your own site: link