Despite some seriously evil legal terms, I moved the instructional videos for the Joomla-SugarCRM bridge from blip.tv to vimeo.
The guys at blip.tv weren't able to deliver xhtml 1.0 strict validating embed code. I considered youtube. But the encoding quality of vimeo, when it comes to screen casts, beats the crap out of youtube's encoding.
So, what did I accomplish? Just take a look at the w3.org validation of a video page.

Since a week I'm working in Haarlem every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. With the good folks of 2Value we're manning a new office at the Kenaupark. The synergy of sharing an office location can be a really good thing. One of the benefits is always having a usability guru around. Kor pointed me at some shortcomings of this website. Some of them I solved today. For instance, take a look at the print stylesheets, by making a print preview in your browsers. Looks pretty smart aye? I cleaned up some elements and greatly increased the font size. Another big improvement is the speed of the website. I automatically resize images most images on the size using the the Drupal imagecache module and the GD library. This makes it easy for me to upload full size pngs (my default screenshot file format). However, the file size of the scaled images - the project images and thumbnails - was still way to large. Using some nifty little imagecache actions allow me to change the file format of the images on the fly. Now I cache the images as jpg. This typically saves about 300 KB on the frontpage!

Code Culture has a brand-spanking new layout. My wonderful friends Leon and Rob from WAT Ontwerpers have concocted a colourful corporate identity, logo, and website design. The drupal theme for this website, I built myself. Though this is still a work in progress (and it probably will be a work in progress for the remainder of it's life), many of the elements of the new design are in place. Let me point out some highlights:

• The logo can be placed over any image and still retain it's expressive power. The header image can be altered to match a specific section's topic or style.
• Good old Helvetica is serving some nicely layed out text styles. Most (semantically relevant) html text elements have been molded to a calm well readable rhythm. Blockquotes, links, linespacing, indenting, lists, etc have all been carefully layed out.
• We have minimised wasted space by wrapping the text under the right column.
• To further demarcate sections and whitespace, we've added some nice supportive visuals to the layout.
• And don't forget the stuff most of us never see! Browser text resizing and print styles have been optimised.
• Cross browser support: the template has been tested in firefox, opera, safari, ie6 and ie7.

My coworkers at Tressis and me have created another green site. The website's layout is mainly blue, but the client is green at heart. E-Connection is a company that starts projects in sustainable energy, specifically wind energy. You could say they are a typically Dutch company, since they deal in wind mills.

In their own words:

E-Connection initiates and realises complex and innovative projects with a substantial positive environmental impact, in particular renewable energy projects. Furthermore E-Connection undertakes related, innovative and supportive research on this subject.

E-Connection comprises a small group of highly qualified professionals, who are able to put together all disciplines required to realise said projects.