These pages are optimized on Firefox as well as on Internet-Explorer. You can download the newest version fo Mozilla Firefox here . I provide a download-link for the Internet Explorer at this place .

This internet presence, or presentation, is not programmed as a frameset; the reason is found in usability: Every part (German/Lebenslauf, English/Curriculum, Projects....) has its own color-concept for a better orientation. Certainly I could do it with JavaScript, I come to that point in a moment.
The disadvantage by working without a frameset is that I have to edit every page, when something in the navigation would change, but with these few pages and with that clear, concise structure I am not (yet) worried about ist. And expansions are made quickly, because...

In this presentation I abandoned html-tables - this makes the source code clearly arranged and short and therefore easily expandable. Plus I simply wanted to give it a try to go completedly without tables.
As I switched into the it-business by going through a practical training, I learned amongst other things html.
Pages were built with tables. But tables should be used to display tabular data only. Generating the framework layout with tables is not correct in principle.

The source code is bloated unnecessarily and often enough nested in many scopes, errors occur faster and are more difficult to detect. Such a layout generated with css can mean having up to 40% less source code. Contents are shown only when the whole table is generated, the user sits probably waiting longer without seeing any progress. This is also a reason why I abandoned completedly html-tables.
The colors for every area are set in an external css-file and do not play a role in the source code.

I think it is very important to let the visitor know on what kind of link he will click and to do so in a simple way. Therefore I labeled my links as follows:

• Links that lead to content within these pages are simply underlined
• Links that open in a new window and with a different kind of file type, tell you which type they will open, e.g. Acrobat Reader [.pdf]
• If a link opens in a new window but belongs to my profile, it is declared as internal link
• Links that open in a new window and do not belong to these pages tell you they are external links
• A mailto-link comes to you in the classical way as an envelope: E-Mail

I did without JavaScript for the most part, because many users have deactivated that funktion anyway. Solely for opening pictures I allowed myself to use it. The OnMouseOver-changes in color in the navigation-menue are also programmed in css.

My customer uses exclusively the Internet Explorer, therefore, from my job related environment, I am used to optimize the layout on that browser.
In private I use Mozilla Firefox - this presentation runs on both media, even though from time to time I stumble over specifications.

Thanks to TFT-Monitors most people run a high resolution. Even though I decided to limit the width of my content-area - otherwise the readability would be more difficult. I optimized the pages on a resolution of 1024*768 - that´s the safe side.

The "disadvantage" of abandoning frameset and larger javascripts has as aftereffect, that the navigation menu does not follow you downwards the page. With the "top"-anker you get comfortably at any time back to the beginning of the page and to the navigation menu.

Most people chose a menu-point in the navigation on the left and wander then with the mouse to the right side to use the scroll-bar to get downwards on the page. Those who "grew up" with a scroll mouse tend to stay on the left side of the page. This is why I placed "top"-anker at the left as well as at the right side of the content and I don´t think this is redundant.

The breadcrumbs at the top of the content-area also help you to define where you are and they always link you back to the start.

Certainly a home page always brings the disadvantage that the user has to do an extra-click. I decided to use a homepage to make sure the right language is chosen right from the beginning. You can see it as a nonrecurring home- or indexpage - apart from the language and appearance selection you will find no content here.
The start page you can always reach from within the breadcrumbs is the actual starting page on which I welcomed you and made clear the reason for this internet presence.