Peter-Paul Koch
Born 1970; lifelong resident of Amsterdam
ppk@xs4all.nl
After having finished studying Ancient History (Greeks & Romans) at the University of Amsterdam, I tried to find a job as a teacher. Unfortunately, there was no demand for teachers of history at all.
I kept myself busy by researching the historical truth behind the Nibelungen and
the work of Heinz Ritter-Schaumburg. I plan to write a thesis on this subject.
I have applied for a research grant at the University of Amsterdam, but it was refused
because the subject was not interesting enough.
After two years on social welfare and a little drugs, I decided it was time to change careers and earn some easy money in website-design, for which I needed some project to teach myself fluent HTML and JavaScript.
To make Ends meet Means (and vice versa), I decided to set up a website discussing the Nibelungen and Ritter. When starting to design, I unexpectedly solved the ancient problem of presenting hyper-footnotes on the Web by accidentaly inventing SUFI.
This, in turn, has led to some thoughts about designing scientific websites.
Studying the worst sites on the part of the Web I know (mainly history and Ancient Germanic related sites), I have distilled...
The Three Commandments of Designing Scientific Websites
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I hereby call upon all scientists to give some little thought to the actual users of their websites. I hope some ideas I have used in this site will spread on the Web, thus reducing illegibility by a significant margin.
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