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Around-the-World
Currently we are on a around-the-word trip which we are documenting on extending-horizons.net. The pages are out-dated. Should I ever have too little to do after our return from our travels, I may get around to putting this content in a CMS, so that I may realisticaly update these pages every now and then.
Welcome!
Welcome to the homepage of Benjamin Streeck. What you will find here: Streeck, Benjamin, Ben, design, web, web-design, internet, internet-design, homepage, homepage-design, jokes, 2000BC, 2000 BC, blog, medicine, Notenrechner
Welcome to my little place on the web. These completely redesigned pages contain a portfolio of my web design work, a selection of my better photography, some information to my person including a bunch of old and fun stuff, and my blog which I hope to use more extensively in the future.
USA-Canada 2002
From the middle of Semptember until mid October Raffaela and I car-camped through
the States and a little bit of Canada. Even though our
travel diary
is in German only,
you may still enjoy some of the many pictures we brought back with us.
Photography
After finaly adding a page about my abitions in
Photography, I am currently trying to finance the
replacement of my stolen camera, at which point more pictures will accumulate.
Pimp My Site!
Following my first attempt at table-free-layout design, using standard W3C XHTML 1.1 I am now also trying to give streeck.com a more modern professional feel. Whether or not I have achived that goal is something you must decide for yourself.
One of my other top priorities was to make these pages GIF-free. PNG is the much superior format offering 4 or 8bit palletts or true-color 16 or 24bit color depth. Not to mention the 8-bit alpha transparency chanel. And the compression is also equal or better then GIFs. And there is no licence/royalty mess. But nothing is perfect: the problem here is once again IE, this time including version 6: there is no support for PNG-transparancy (except when using hacks, which eat bandwidth and always have their limits). I have implemented two such hacks to make the PNGs work with IE, but I'm far from happy having to do that.
In case you are still using the InternetExplorer, and even if the InternetExplorer seems to display these pages adequately, I hope you will take into consideration trying out another browser. Firefox has taken the internet by storm, and as a product of the Mozilla open-souce community it is the safest browser you can find.
| Firefox | SeaMonkey | Mozilla Suite | Opera | InternetExplorer | |||||||
| 1.5.0 | 1.0.6 | 1.0 | 1.7.12 | 1.4.2 | 1.0.2 | 8.54 | 8.02 | 7.54 | 6.0 | 5.5 | |
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Support: ++ great / + good / o acceptable / - bad / -- horrible A second value indicates support with browser specific hacks. |
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