Thinking about colors...

I'm currently thinking about what colors to use for my website. At the moment I tend to use some blue tones and white/grey for text areas.

Here are some color combinations that I'm currently considering:








The following images are considered as background gradients at the moment.

Topic approved!

I got approval for my website topic from Professor Corse and can now start to search and create some concrete content for my website. Well, first I will need something like a draft for a sitemap, I guess. Hopefully, I can do that within this week and then really start with the programming.

To all the other people in my INFO 652 course: leave me a comment or send me an email so that I can add your blog to my list on the right side of the page (if you are not listed already).

Added some other blogs

I added links to two other blogs of students taking the INFO 652 course. I think it would be a good idea to have a list of all blogs on each of our blogs. This way it would be very easy to see what the other people in the course are doing and writing. In my opinion, this would make the whole blogging thing even more interactive.

So, if you are currently taking the Spring INFO 652 course at Drexel University and are not listed on the right site yet, please leave me a comment or email with your blog's address. I will then add you to the list. Also, feel free to copy any existing links to your own blogs.

Finally decided - the topic of my website

After spending the last week with thinking about possible topics for my website, I finally decided what I want to do! The topic of my website will be "Ways to promote websites with little or no money".

There are several reasons why I have chosen this topic:

• It is a topic I'm personally interested in. After I'm done with my studies I'm planning on starting my own business and of course I will need a very good website that has to be promoted. Therefore, I'm hoping that the website I'm going to create now will help me in the future.
• It is a topic in which other people might be interested in. Increasingly more people have their own websites and I am sure they would like to have a collection of possible ways to promote their websites.
• It is an up-to-date topic that can be well supported by this blog without becoming totally boring for people to read.

Now that I made my decision the next step will be to outline the structure and content of the new website. Also, questions such as about design will have to be answered.

What the blog is about...

In this blog I will post my thoughts and ideas for the website I'm going to create for my INFO 652 course. In following posts I will outline my ideas for this website and the content and functions I intend to implement over the next weeks.

Since I already have some experience in website design, I will try to improve the basic HTML website with some advanced technologies, such as JavaScript. If our web server supports PHP and MySQL I might also extend the website using these technologies. I will have to figure that out and to make sure that it meets the course's requirements.

I haven't come up with my final decision about the website's topic yet, but hope to do so within the next days. Based on the chosen topic I will then outline a possible structure and site-map for the website.

In order to make this blog a little bit more personal I added links to two other websites of mine to the navigation on the right hand side. One of the links brings you to my USA blog, which I started upon my arrival in the USA in 2006. The other link brings you to a small page about my trip to Australia in 2005. The language on both sites is German, but there are also many pictures that speak for themselves. Therefore, feel free to practice your German (if you ever learned it), or just have fun with the pictures, or use one of the many website translation tools if you are interested in the content :)

Getting started

Hello and welcome to my blog!

I just created this new blog for my INFO 652 class. In the following weeks I will frequently post my thoughts and other crazy stuff.

First some information about my person. I'm a 24 old student currently enrolled in the MSIS program at Drexel in Philadelphia. I was born and raised in Germany and came to the U.S. the first time in August 2006 to complete an internship at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton. After one year of working there, I finished my bachelor studies in business applications of computer science in Germany. Then I decided that I wanted to continue my studies in the U.S., which brought me to Drexel.

So currently I'm a full-time on-campus student and not working besides studying. I aim to finish my study program at Drexel around June 2009 and to start my own business afterwards.

Some of the websites I visit frequently, are:

• Google News
• Digg
• MSNBC

That's it for now. Hope you enjoyed reading this first post and will visit my site again.