About

About

01 Impressum (required by German law)

Diese Seiten sind ein privates Internetangebot von:
Volkher Hofmann
Ottstrasse 2
76744 Wörth am Rhein
E-Mail: bigwhig[Kringel einfügen]deus62.com

Hinweis:
Angaben von Telefon- und/oder Faxnummer privater Anbieter sind weder nach TDDSG noch nach MDStV gefordert.

Urheberrecht und Haftung
Der Verfasser gestattet die Übernahme des Textes in Datenbestände, die ausschliesslich für den privaten Gebrauch eines Nutzers bestimmt sind. Die Übernahme und Nutzung der Daten zu anderen Zwecken bedarf der schriftlichen Zustimmung des Verfassers Volkher Hofmann. Eine Haftung für die Richtigkeit der Angaben in den Artikeln wird nicht übernommen.

02 About this site

This site was created with the help of Sharpfolio, a theme created by WebRevolutionary. It runs on WordPress and not much else.

Deus62.com and all its sites, livingwithmusic.com, count-basie.com, volkher-hofmann.de and other - invisible to the public - projects used to employ ExpressionEngine as a backend. I have decided to migrate all my sites to WordPress not because I didn’t think ExpressionEngine was a good content management system but because I wasn’t good enough to design decent sites around it. Because I have become somewhat visually impaired as of late, designing a site from scratch to contain the incredible capabilities of Expression Engine just wasn’t possible anymore. WordPress has the one added advantage of allowing one to quickly pull together a site based on a template or two and requiring only a little tweaking here or there to make things work the way you want them to. In the end, I had the choice of hiring a designer to turn my site design into a decent site … or switch to WordPress.

03 About the author

Deus62 is Volkher Hofmann, high school teacher by day and amateur web designer by night.

The web moniker ‘deus62′ originated from a web team I ran at school, in a rather authoritarian way (try keeping a larger group of web and programming geeks in check for an entire afternoon and you know why), its true origin having been by my passion for deusEx, a first-person shooter I loved playing at the time (yaeh, I know, teachers shouldn’t like that stuff). Put one and two together and what you get is my students referring to me as deus.

The 62 came from, err, well, …

I’ve been online ever since the Web was invented and built my first websites with Frontpage (good grief) in the very early 90s. I advanced to table-based layouts (David Siegel made me contribute to ruining the Net) and published my first somewhat standards compliant website based on CSS and XHTML in 2004.

Over the years, I’ve left enough footprints around the Internet, both privately and officially, to piece together a decent CV so I’ll leave it up to you to do the relevant research. Suffice it to say that I love music and design, I used to be a member of 9rules and am now solo once again. I also participated in a bunch of government projects, bringing German schools in line with the late 20th century. Thankfully, most of the really embarrassing stuff has since disappeared into the bits and bytes that are the memory of a global medium.