About this web site

Ownership

This web site is owned and run by me, Erik Thau-Knudsen. You can contact me using the Contact page.

Purpose

The purpose of www.thau-knudsen.dk is to serve my own private interests, and chiefly

1. news about my life;
2. opinions about different matters;
3. promulgation of knowledge and experiences within special areas, e.g., as shared knowledge and software, such as music;
4. work for my carreer to assure me a steady job;
5. experimenting with new technologies.

There are also more private areas in which I share files with very limited target groups. The total number of pages exceeds 500.

Target groups

Most pages are written having specific persons in mind. It aids when writing to a reader I know in person, and it also increases quality of the texts, and eventually leads to a higher hit rate in my web statistics. In other words, I write for friends, relatives, colleagues, and other acquaintances, but many more read the stuff.

Stats pr. 24h

	Average per day		Total per year
Year	Hits	Visits	Hits	Visits
2007	1850	200	675347	73273
2008	2416	192	765070	70508
2009	2269	174	696354	63758
2010	3330	225	1058128	82216
2011	3995	374	1205883	136589
2012	3766	418

Structure of the web site

Design

I use different designs throughout the web site. This reflects not as much the various phases of my web designing skills as it reflects particular areas of interest to different target groups. The most widespread is my so-called 2005 standard which is also employed for this document. A very visible feature of this is the employment of national flags to mark the language used in a hyperlinked target.

Main public areas

News

New things happening in my life.

Opinions

What I think about various matters. Linguistically mixed.

Genealogy

My genetic roots and off-springs. Every person has one page. Special design. Mainly in Danish, although some pages are also available in other languages.

Computer issues

Solutions, tips, opinions about different issues within information technology — computers and mobile telephony. Special design. Mainly in English.

CV

Curriculum vitae. There are several CVs depending on language, information densitiy, and scope.

Bric-a-brac

Old stuff for sale. Special design. Mainly in English.

Linguistic asymmetry

The languages used are Danish, English, German, Russian, Vukovian [also called Serbo-Croatian], Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Slovenian. They are asymmetric in the sense that they — except for contact pages — are not mere translations of one another, but rather convey information relevant to my friends and colleagues speaking those languages. E.g., this very About page also has a Danish alternative, but the content is not identical.

Old addresses

This site has been hosted by different servers and with different addresses.

Home page addresses

Start	End	URL
2001-01	2002	http://hotlips.sf.dk/~erik-thau-knudsen/
2002-09	2004-09	http://www.mac.com/erik_thau_knudsen/
2003	2005	http://www.thau.tk/
2003-09	—	http://www.thau-knudsen.dk/

Shortcuts

You can access various parts of my site using access keys. They are cross-linguistic within the 2005 standard, but are not identical in pages of Computer issues, Genealogy, Personal presentation.

Access keys employed in the 2005 standard

Target	Macintosh	Windows
Contact	Ctrl - 0	Alt - 0
Home page	Ctrl - 1	Alt - 1
News	Ctrl - 2	Alt - 2
Opinions	Ctrl - 3	Alt - 3
CV	Ctrl - 4	Alt - 4
Personal presentation	Ctrl - 5	Alt - 5
My computer park	Ctrl - 6	Alt - 6
Genealogy	Ctrl - 7	Alt - 7
Computer issues	Ctrl - 8	Alt - 8

If you use the Mozilla suite browser or Opera, you will also have access to site navigation using the Site Navigation Bar (in Mozilla). All pages offer additional commented links this way.

Web standards

This site aims at using the highest standards possible. In practice, the highest standards are not always possible, not even when hand coding. E.g., almost no web browsers have employed the CSS 3.0 amendments to the Cascading Style Sheets technology.

Client side relevant standards

• Structure: xHTML 5 (most pages), XHTML 1.1 (many pages), XHTML 2.0 (a few documents), XHTML 1.0 Strict (few), XHTML 1.0 Transitional (even fewer); XML 1.0 (extremely few)
• Structure defining: DTD
• Design: CSS 2.1; CSS 3.0 (Borders with rounded corners, columns); XSL
• Function: JavaScript 1.5
• Text encoding: iso-8859-1, utf-8
• Image formats: JPEG (.jpg, .jpe, .jpeg), GIF (.gif), PNG (.png), SVG (.svg. On an older desktop computer [incl. laptop types] this requires an SVG plugin, e.g., Adobe SVG Viewer. Mobile phones: Confer the SVG.org list of Shipping and Announced SVG Phones with SVG Tiny 1.1 compatibility)

Server side standards

1. PhP 4
2. SSI / CGI

Media and care for disabled persons

The best user agents to show you the pages are dealt with in detail on Best browser. The below list reflects the status as of September 2006.

• Best browser for viewing these pages on a desktop or laptop computer with a screen monitor is— at the time of writing — Mozilla 1.7.x (i.e., not 1.8.x) or Opera (CSS media screen). Firefox works too with certain add-ons (see chapter about Firefox in my Commented browser list.
• Best user agent for printing is Opera in the most recent version on your platform (CSS media print).
• As for handheld devices, these pages have Opera Mini for mobile phones in mind (CSS media handheld).

Special care is taken for people with visual disabilities, including, among others:

• Semantically correct use of the heading tags (h, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) and all table tags (table, thead, th, tbody, td, tfoot, caption);
• in my site specific 2005 standard, table's are used to outline tabular data, not to lay out the page itself;
• alt property with all images, summary property with tables, title property with most links ;
• xml:lang or lang property whenever an unexpected language is used, i.e., whenever there are text passages in another language than the one used on the page;
• Skip-menu navigation option on top of the pages (implemented in major language versions of the 2005 lay-out standard)

There are no specific pages or page versions targeted for people with physical or mental disabilities.

Printing

To print pages from this site, use the Opera web browser.

Printed pages are not identical with the pages available on screen. Differences:

• Font typefaces in the bulk text is serif, and with fixed sizes;
• some columns (e.g., the main menu) are omitted from printing;
• links are, in some documents, not highlighted.

To view your print before pressing Cmd + P, you may view it within the browser (i.e., not in the Menu > Files > Print Preview option offered by your operating system). Norwegian built Opera and German built iCab offer this feature. If you use Firefox with the extension Stylesheet Chooser Plus by French student Olivier Daroux, you can select it from the Stylesheet Chooser, too.

Updates

The site structure has remained more or less unaltered since the startup in January 2001. Pages in the public area are seldomly moved. The current version of the user interface is from June-July 2005. New pages are added with a rate of about 50 per year. Their contents are updated whenever relevant, e.g., my CV. Pages with news or opinions are, as a rule, not subject to updates.

Erik Thau-Knudsen