I had the honor of meeting Filip Blažek at typo.graphic.beirut in April. As I shook his hand, he said, “ahh, TypeOff.; your site isn’t so up-to-date, is it?”
Well Filip , you were right. Our site was not up-to-date. In fact, we hadn’t posted any new content since the end of January, when four of us had participated in the FontAid III Fleurons of Hope project. Immediately upon returning from Beirut, the collective went into action.
Now TypeOff. is proud to be Offenbach’s only weblog devoted entirely to typography and type design (hey, it is a start). We hope that you will continue to enjoy reading our pages every month, Filip. We’Fll do our best to keep them interesting.
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Just 36 hours after the new site launch, our host’s MySQL-Server crashed. We spent most of the next two days trying to figure out exactly what happened. They could have been more helpful, but I suspect that they had thousands of any customers on their hands. We were able to quickly reconstruct most of the site’s content, but all comments from before the crash are lost :(
Anyway, TypeOff is back online! (we are looking for a good automatic backup method, should anyone know of one) Enjoy…
“Offenbach’s only weblog devoted entirely to typography”
:D I think, this is the only typo blog in the whole Hessen area!
Well, to be fair, I should mention the following blogs:
On praegnaz.de is Gerrit van Aaken’s blog, which among other things covers typography. Gerrit is a design student at the FH-Mainz, I believe. Mainz isn’t in Hessen, but it does belong to the Rhein-Main Region.
Then there is Nick Blume, a graduate of the FH-Mainz who now seems to be living in Munich. His website looks a lot like Gerrit’s (they both use Text Pattern, which he insists is better than WordPress), and has a blog, too. In fact, on his blog today is a wonderful post about the new TypeOff.
Students and graduates even meet monthly for their own Stammtisch (no website), which is older, and sometimes bigger than our fledgling “Rhein-Main” Typostammtisch.
But now that we have a blog up (even though blogs are so not new anymore), we’ll do our best to capitalize on our local position and roots.
Just look at what Slanted has done for Karlsruhe…
Ich traf Filip letztes Jahr auf der Typo Berlin, nach dem er bereits beim spatium typography einen Beitrag beigesteuert hat. Sein realtiv neustes Projekt ist http://diacritics.typo.cz/ über diakritische Zeichen.
Genau. Ich bin ein Fan von die Diacitics-Seite. Fiip hat sie bei der obengannten Konferenz bekanntgegeben. Auch bei der Konferenz waren einige schöne Plakate seines Studios Designiq ausgestellt.
Übrigens, ich habe heute probiert, ein neues Element im Menü zu bringen, in dem mann sehen könnte, welche Beiträge letztens kommentiert waren. Beim WordPress geht das nur mit Third-Party Plugins. Nach ich das Feature eingebaute habe, sah es ganz schön aus, aber die Back-End Admin-Seiten ging dann nicht mehr! Deswegen kam den Teil wieder raus :( Ich hab’ den Plugin-Autor geschrieben. Höffenelich kann ich bald dieses Feature wieder reinbringen.
Hi Dan,
hatte es auch gesehen, mir gefiel es nicht so die Kommentare mit Anzahl darzustellen. Wirkt für meinen geschmack sehr unruhig, vor allem bei langen Posting-Titeln.
Ja, die Texte waren den zu lang.
Willkommen zurueck, TypeOff.. ( Dan, Ich wollte mir die Seite gleich mal ansehen, als du sie zu in deinem Typophile Blog erwaehnt hast, aber da war wohl leider das Datenbankmassaker schon von statten gegangen.. :) )