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webdesigns: Arabella.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:36:56 +0100

Commercial broadcaster Radio Arabella has got a new website - by knallgrau. At first, let's have a quick before/after look: That was Arabella.at for the last few years. New Arabella.at in a typical news platform layout, aggregating numerous sources. Overview for the different radio shows... ...that are blogs! The hosts write about their show's topics and discuss it with their audience. We have Flickr Slideshows for the huge amount of party pics etc. And of course we redesigned the weather maps, putting the map elements to the back and bring the essential information to the front. The footer sums up the site and offers a sitemap and the navigation to others regions of Austria where you can listen to Radio Arabella. There's also a link to Arabella's B2B-Site media-sales.at, which we relaunched with a new design as well.

weblog: Almer�a

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:43:16 +0100

I've been to Almer�a in 2002, not knowing what I saw. Today, Erwin Wagenhofer's documentaries take me back to my memories of the region. In Wagenhofer's film We Feed The World I saw the same pictures that I took with my camera in 2002: Participating in European Union's Comenius project, I spent a whole week in the South-East of Spain (here are our project results - actually one of the first HTML pages I've ever built, with frames and all the good stuff...). We even made it into a local newspaper: I was excited, and everything I saw was fine and good and beautiful and nice, like I thought my photos were: Of course, we visited one of the plantations: At that time, I had no clue that this was a globalized industry that brings wealth to any other country but the people in the region. Now I know, that 80% of Spain's coast line is obstructed with uninhabited properties, just for one reason: provide value for global investments. Almer�a is not only the setting for many Hollywood classics but also for the ongoing financial crisis thriller, whose victims are the ones that can only watch and pay for it.

webdesigns: Anzetteln.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:03:46 +0200

Designing a blogging platform for Styria's Social Democrats Anzetteln is German for instigate, meaning people can create, follow and track their own initiatives (e.g. "we want free access to universities") and geo tag them. Every initiative has got a calendar with dates and a blog where the discussion can evolve: Looking forward to see the platform grow!

webdesigns: PayLife Tour 09

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:51:53 +0200

Social Media campaign for PayLife Knallgrau and D,M&B set up a Social Media Marketing campaign for PayLife, an Austrian company for card-based payments. All the contents are in German, but here's what the campaign looks like in different channels: Besides the micro site they are active on YouTube: Facebook: and Twitter: .

webdesigns: ots.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:25:58 +0200

Knallgrau develops design and IA for Austria Press Agency's OTS.at Today, a project I was working on since my very first days at Knallgrau finally launched: redesigning OTS.at, a portal for press releases.

Before and after

The epicenter of the site: the press release.

Design decision: to tab or not to tab?

A little detail: we had this one part of the page that was different to the topic channels like politics, finance and the like. The extra part was about the many companies and organisations that send out press releases. But it was only on extra tab so it had to stay in the tab menu, only look different. When I tried to seperate it using colors, gradients, borders and nothing worked, I just hid it. And that was the solution: not showing the tab solved my whole tab problem! Great project I'm proud to be part of.

webdesigns: privatsenderpraxis.at

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:56:06 +0200

Privatsenderpraxis is an association of Austria's private Radio and TV broadcasters, holding workshops and talks about the future of broadcasting. Knallgrau launched their website in May 2009. The site features a simple and calm design: Each topic has its own color scheme: And every speaker has its own profile page: Using Google Maps, you can easily find the spot where your workshop takes place:

weblog: When you're writing a really, I mean REALLY good tweet and you want people to retweet it...

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:35:15 +0200

...do not use all the 140 characters available, but leave the amount of characters of your name +5 ("RT @" and a " " after your name) so people can retweet it without having to cut your awesome tweet. Also mind that people might like to retweet using "via" - they will need more characters left over for that: (via @[name]) - that's +7 One last thing: Manually retweeting in the web interface of Twitter means copy and paste the tweet plus the name of the twitterer. Unfortunately, there's no space character between the name and the tweet in Twitter's web interface - it's just a margin-right of 5 pixels that look like a space. What happens is that the name and the first term of the tweet become one melted word! Example here (in German): http://twitter.com/bodenseepeter/statuses/1845442333 (the twitter name is "Sierralog", not "SierralogNach") - sucks! UPDATE: Lee LeFever from CommonCraft:

Sometimes tweets are too good to abbreviate for a RT. View this one by @michaeldpick in it's natural habitat: http://bit.ly/14VbRZLee LeFever

webdesigns: kinder-sind-umsonst.de

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:39:15 +0200

Social Media campaign for Bavaria Filmstadt Munich, by Knallgrau Besides the microsite, Knallgrau also launched the YouTube Channel and a Facebook Page including an application and a quiz:

weblog: Sharing scars about car sharing

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:24:38 +0200

Knallgrau's Dieter Rappold was twittering about an unsatisfying experience with car sharing company Sixt - and they didn't care. All tweets are in German and can be followed via Twitter Search.

weblog: Twittering is a dialogue

misc@misc.at (Michael Schmidt) — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:04:11 +0200

Thanks to Philipp, I can now show my Twitter Conversations with user icons! Still, the script I use doesn't like me all of the time and the XML with the user data (http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=misc_at) isn't always available - but: it's live!