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- Type: Content Management System
- Base: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- Genesis Date: 01/01/1999
Thinking that constantly changing static HTML websites is an awfully boring job Mathias Wollin and Martin Schuster came up with the idea of building websites dynamically from a database and an application server early in 1999. Not a very unique idea, as one knows now, as hundreds and thousands of content management systems came out not much later, and nowadays nearly every website is based on such a system. At that time nearly all (and still today some) systems suffer from an ugly and not so userfriendly interface design. Thought from the users perspective right from the start, aspekt:ratio was designed and constructed with the unexperienced website author in mind. The result is a clean, readable and user expectation conforming interface that enables people to do complicated tasks easily, even if it’s only once a year.
aspekt:ratio was built on LAMP-basis using Linux operating system, Apache webserver, MySQL Database and PHP as the application server.
Data retrieval and output for print products
Our project partner DG Medien is using aspekt:ratio with an attached PDF generation to output printable PDF-files directly from aspekt:ratio. This makes it possible to pass the content directly on to a print shop without any further conversion. The advantages of this workflow compared with static templates e.g. in MS Word are obvious. The results are of constant aesthetic quality and visual precision. The users can easily make sure they provided all necessary information without having to write numerous emails and the costs per print product edition reduce dramatically.
Projects using aspekt:ratio
Small startup website that is surely not about eyes at all. But seeing is believing, so see for yourself what they do.
Website for Germany's oldest magazin about industrial and graphic design.
Colorful and bright website for Frankfurts most creative mostly girls agency
hauser lacour show us their new face: An elegant new website.
The Munich based artist shows her recent works in a no-nonsense manner
The "Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt" (museum of the state of hesse) is the state's central museum.
Website for the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach.
Powerful content management system for online print production and administration of several websites.
"Neues von Münchhausen - Der Ritt auf dem Seepferd" is a German children's book by Heinz Janisch, illustrated by Aljoscha Blau
Ougrapo is an archive and a workshop for "graphic design under constraints". And a Website.
Website for a German producer of connectivity and infotainment products
Website for a Frankfurt law firm of three unconventional lawyers who see their clients as people, not as clients only.
32 monitors showing users' favorite images when presenting their personal card.