LaserConnect is Sitewards partner for the distribution of hard- and software of well-known manufacturers. To satifsy Sitewards' wholistic approach we extend our business activities for the benefit of our customers. For the design of your IT solution Sitewards and its customers have now access to the broad range of IT products. Read more...

Information Technology graduate Lars Ax conceptualises IT solutions according to customer needs. He strengthens the Sitewards team as IT Consultant and - along with Wolfgang Braun - addresses customer requests in the areas of networks and systems technology.

Many students wonder if self employment in the future is a good option for them. Among them are the Students of the Law and Economic Studies at the TU Darmstadt, the alma mater of Sitewards' founders.

Markus Hahn, editor of the periodical "Emil", took an insight into the development of Sitewards GmbH. In an interview with Sitewards founder Constantin Kammerer he summarised the most important themes around the founding and consolidation of Sitewards.

You can read the full interview (in German) in the current version Emil, ed. 21, pp. 14-17.

Sitewards belongs to the winners of the annual competition held by "Mittelstandsförderung 2006", an initiative established by Sage Software.

The competition awards innovative small and medium-sized businesses with prizes from several categories. The initiative was founded in 2004 and within a short period of time has established as one of the leading economy supporting institutions.

The whole Sitewards team is very happy about the award and would like to thank all initiators of "Mittelstandsförderung 2006".

On November 14, IHK Darmstadt hosted an event providing visitors with information on how to set up one's own business. Several exhibitors and presentations gave helpful advice to future entrepreneurs on their way to implement their business ideas.

Sitewards CEO Kshitij Gupta held a presentation dealing with success factors of businesses after their foundation.

Furthermore, numerous visitors to the fair stopped by the Sitewards booth in order to gather more information about our Venture Support concept. The event has proven the current boom of start-up companies in Germany.

After having successfully implemented the Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) on Auto Hirch's website, Sitewards wants to broaden its range of services in mobile communication technology.

For this reason, Sitewards has set up a partnership with MOBILEtechnics AG. Sitewards now offers mobile commuication services, such as the automated transmission of pictures and data from the world wide web via MMS.

Based on MOBILEtechnics' innovative technologies, Sitewards offers a wide range of services and products from the field of mobile communication.

The Sitewards Design team has created a website for the 125th anniversary of Carl Schenk AG in Darmstadt.

On schenck125jahre.de, you will find all information and a video about the company’s history. Along with these historical facts, the website includes information about the anniversary exhibition and contact details for guided tours and group visits of the company sites.

With a series of high quality business pictures of several Sitewards employees, Sitewards won the "necktie" photo competition on sxc.hu, the leading free stock photo site. These highly professional photos can be used by both print and web designers.

Hence, designers of all kinds regularly make use of these free stock photos sxc.hu organised this competition, in order to increase the diversity of stock photos related to the world of business. The Sitewards team has been enthusiastic about the idea of producing a series of professional business photos.

As a result, our design department came up with a multitude of different pictures. The quality of the pictures convinced the jury, eventually electing us the winner of the competition. It will be interesting to see how many websites and printing material all over the world will carry pictures of Sitewards employees in the future. All our photos can be found on sxc.hu.

The Sitewards-Team was glad to have a visitor from Brazil over the last weeks. Caio Ferreira is currently working successfully as a web designer in his home town Fortaleza in northeastern Brazil. Having seen Caio's outstanding work, Sitewards decided to offer him a short-term internship in Darmstadt.

During his time at Sitewards he proved his remarkable designing and photographing skills. His time at Sitewards was a great professional and cultural experience for him and the whole Sitewards team. Caio Ferreira describes his stay in Germany as follows: "I would like to thank you all for the great time I had with your team in Darmstadt. It´s a very nice company with a nice atmosphere and lots of interesting work to do."

Sitewards will keep in touch with Caio Ferreira after his return to Brazil. There he will take over outsourced projects for Sitewards.

Two new faces joined Sitewards on September 1. In the future Sascha Carlin will boost the performance of our already outstanding software developing team and Jochen Breunig will be responsible for marketing & sales.

Besides our new colleagues, there are two further changes in the Sitewards team. Tij Gupta has taken over the position as CEO from Carsten Takac, who will carry on his professional career in a well-known consulting company. Moreover, Marc Dassler is going to pursue his career in the IT consulting industry.

Sitewards has found a highly qualified partner for the field of market research. Stefan Worm is a doctoral candidate and research assistant at Prof. Bliemel’s Chair of Marketing at the University of Kaiserslautern Besides his teaching and research activities, he further works as a marketing consultant for well-known companies. As a Sitewards partner, he will make his market research expertise available to our customers thus helping them to become more successful in their respective markets.

Follow-up: After the implementation of our vising card configurator for the telecom giant Arcor, now we are adding the last finishing touches to this system.

In the current version, we have included a confirmation system before the delivery of the print-ready files. Since the person ordering is not always the person, in whose name the visiting card is being printed, the latter receives a confirmation email before the print-ready PDF is created.

The advantage of the system: All steps for the ordering are now online without using any paperwork, thanks to theis system from Sitewards.

Schenck is a leader in balancing and diagnostics technology. With the slogan "Everything that rotates must be balanced" the Darmstadt based technology company offers a wide and ever growing spectrum of products.

For the newcomer "Pasio" Sitewards developed not only a concise product presentation but also a fine display in the form of a new website. The online presentation fulfils all the needs of Schenck’s corporate identity and optimally represents the technological superiority of the balancing machine.

The mix of animation and HTML together show off the core information about the product and display Sitewards’ many capabilities: "Modern and proven under one roof".

Update: After the successful first project, Sitewards is now creating a website for Schenck’s celebration of 125 years of existence. Giving company to the artistic exhibition in Darmstadt the website narrates the company’s history – from the founding of the company to date. One can see 125 years of product design and development in the form of a visual tour.

For the very busy and for those who do not want to miss on the detailed information while travelling, Auto Hirch offers the visitors of its website the details of cars with pictures via MMS.

Sitewards created the function that enables giving users to send all details of a car via MMS. In a few steps all the important information about an offered car is available without paper jams, emails and waiting time. Of course, in addition to all the technical data, one gets the pictures of the car.

Curious? Try out, under http://www.autohirch.com. Select a car > Klick on the cell phone button > fill up the form and wait a moment.

When Carsten Feuerbach invites people to events in Darmstadt, not many guests deny the offer.

Under "Firebeach Events" his crew offers a wide spectrum of services in event planning and management.

The web presence - completely redesigned by Sitewards - underlines the professionalism of the Darmstadt based Event Manager.

Each coloured section about "Events", "Locations" und "Marketing" present the contents of the website in the best light and create the party mood for the website without losing its professionalism.

No, thats not someone from another planet! One of the biggest contributors to the German Wikipedia, Tim Bartel, visited Sitewards to get a preview of the Sitewards Wiki. Tim is writing his Diploma Thesis (Diplomarbeit) on the use of Wikis in enterprises. (Read Tim's Blog.)

At Sitewards, we use the Mediawiki software for internal information management. Sitewards also implements Wiki for customers for their information management needs.

The town of Oberhaching near Munich presents a new image to its citizens and visitors.

In cooperation with the InterLogics eGovernment GmbH Sitewards developed a new screendesign for this upper Bavarian town. The design considers all the existing menus and removes all existing barriers.

A clearer structure of the pages, together with the new user friendliness, bring a completely new image to the community.

Travellers and Safari fans can now experience the fantastic environs of eastern Africa with the Kili Air Charter Service from the Moshi Airport.

The Sitewards team developed a new corporate design including logo, visiting cards and letterheads, and translated the corporate design into a beautiful web presence.

A photo gallery with aerial shots around Kilimanjaro and Information about Services from Kili Air invite customers for more action...

The lower-Saxony city in the "Südheide" now greets its visitors with a new design.

In cooperation with InterLogics eGovernment GmbH Sitewards created a new Screendesign for Gifhorn. This design is charming for the eyes and yet fulfils all rules of Content Accessibility.

A clear structure of the pages and easy navigation with user specific font customisations enable the city to invite its visitors to a virtual tour of the Mühlenstadt.

This summer Königstein transforms into a football-city. When Ecuador plays Germany and Sweden play England, Taunus will be captured by the world championship.

The Taunus(er) Effekten AG has invited its business partners to celebrate this event. With its World Championship oriented invitation cards, Sitewards stepped into the festivities as the design and GaudiTours (now and later) into the organisers-league.

The Hochheim based Weingut Falk enjoys a new and tangy design developed by Sitewards.

In the full splendour of the wine that Weingut Falk grows, Sitewards developed a new Corporate Design with Logo, Letterheads & Visiting cards and used the same for the new website for the tradition oriented wine grower.

A clear and beautiful layout invites visitors to wine tasting in the idyllic Rheingau environs.

Experience the high point of the Football World Championship and type your way to the Finals!

Sitewards presents, alongside the biggest event of the year, the WM-Tippspiel 2006 (in German, but easy to understand) and invites all customers and friends to let the football fever loose. Use your expertise or just type away blind.

We wish you all the best and a fantastic World Championship.

The european car market is becoming increasingly interesting for small and mid-sized used and employee car dealers as it is becoming easier to reach customers outside the home-country using online car-exchanges. The Spanish market is especially interesting for our customer Auto Hirch as the luxury tax makes the brands Mercedes-Benz and Chrysler very exclusive.

In addition to the German language data export to mobile.de and autoscout24.de, now autoscout24.es is also being used. A new Spanish PDF is also being generated for the Spanish visitors of Auto Hirch.

HMD Druck serves a new and fast growing market with its flexible print services. With the help of the Sitewards-developed PDF-configurator, it is now possible for users at HMD-Druck's customer-company to fill up a visiting card template and get a preview of the print-ready PDF. When the customer confirms the preview, HMD gets a visiting card in print-quality PDF. The PDF-configurator is designed to allow configuring templates for letter-heads, envelopes etc.

The ".eu" domains are now available on a First-Come-First-Served basis without needing a company or brand for the registration. The ".eu" domain registration was opened in phases to allow companies and registered trademark holders register their domains first.

Contact us to get your domain registered.

In over 35 years, Auto Hirch has sold cars in the whole world. One can see here where his satisfied customers are.

You can navigate through this map, by holding the left-click down and dragging the mouse.

To zoom in you can use the bar on the left or click on one of the magnifying glasses, which indicates the sale of several cars in that region. To see an individual sold car, click on the single car icon.

In the search-text field, one can see a dropdown of recommendations from the cities available.

This map is just one example of what is possible with the newest web technologies.

Update: We have already registered more than 5,000 Hits on this map in the first week of its being online!

The Hamburger Abendblatt, a Hamburg based daily, published parts of a telephonic interview with Sitewards CEO, Carsten Takac, on the subject of Search Engine Optimisation. The article, "Was macht eigentlich ein Search Engine Optimizer?" ("What does a Search Engine Optimizer actually do?"), appears on page 67 in the section "Beruf & Erfolg" of the edition dated 4./5. March, 2006. The content of the article is around what constitutes the work of a Search Engine Optimizer and how, according to Sitewards, inspite of its importance, the search engine optimisation is only a part of the organisation's outgoing communication. (Click on the image to read the PDF version).

The Hanau based Precision Engineering company that creates precision lathe workpieces and milled parts is now reachable online on a Website created by Sitewards. The growing company, that has developed in the areas of classical machine technology and precision engineering, got a Website with a simple and clear design that suits the industry. (Click on the image to see the website).

After the successful creation of the Corporate Design and the Website, Sitewards has created the Address-Labels and Quick-Note for Elektro-Winkler's customer communications. Here one can see the various customer-communication media that Sitewards can make a difference to, under a beautiful Corporate Design.

Sitewards designed the new Website for Darmstadt based mobile telephony testing and measurement solutions provider, Focus Infocom. Since the Focus Infocom team has started working on the website themselves, we're linking the image, here, to a screenshot of their website as we designed it. This website has a well defined audience among partners and business-to-business customers of Focus Infocom. Therefore, it is an example of a simple, but professional looking web-presence we have developed based on the customer's briefing.

Elektro-Winkler now has a new website showcasing their new products and services, while showing off the new Corporate Design that Sitewards created some weeks back (see news below). This website is an example of how we developed a completely fresh Corporate Design for an old-economy company and then translated it into a beautiful and simple website.

While it snowed outside most of the days of this festive season, Sitewards moved to a neighbouring office in the same building. The space is bigger (with 5 rooms and large workspaces), brighter, beautiful and helps us become better organised. The new office will provide more workspace for the growing Sitewards team. We chose the time during these holidays (between Christmas and New Year's Eve) to keep it transparent to our customers.

After the Robot-Football World Championship won by our CTO, Marc, it was time for another programming achievement. Dirk Songuer and his team won the 3rd place at "the Ultimate Meeting" with his "Objektgeballer 2" program. The aim was to pack in the most impressive visualisations with music in a tiny 64KB file. 64KB, incidentally, is smaller than the Notepad program of Windows XP! The important thing here was that no graphics can be inserted into the file due its small size. The visualisation effects are completely programmed. However the file contains a 2 minute long music file and a stand-alone music player (capable of playing only this music file) embedded in it.

You can download the program here. Just extract and run the EXE file to see some magic! You can hit the ESC key (top-left of the keyboard) to exit the program.

Sitewards created a new Corporate Design for the Rosbach-Rodheim based Elektro-Winkler. The project involved creation of a new Logo with design also for Visiting Cards, Document Templates, Letter Heads and Work Reports. The firm founded in 1890 now has a fresh look, compliant with its new business areas and appealing for its large clientele. (Click on the image to see all the design elements we created for Elektro-Winkler.)

3t nails recently launched a new line of furniture for nail studios. The furniture is available with several options of colours for the panels, metallic handles and edges. Sitewards created a Macromedia Flash based Furniture Configurator to help 3t nails' customers quickly preview their choices. To build this Configurator, we started with several photographs of the furniture with their measurements and created the 3D models. Then we used Macromedia Flash to animate these models and provide the options for changing colours and rotating the model. (Click on the image to test the Configurator for yourself!)

Sitewards has published the new website of start-up company Lentis Media. The website shows off their new Corporate Design developed by Sitewards and introduces Lentis Media's new product called Lydia. Currently, Sitewards is also creating the User Interface for Lydia. Sitewards had earlier created the Corporate Design and designed the Visiting Cards, Presentation Templates and Letter Heads for Lentis Media.

Sitewards has a long standing and close relationship with the TU-Darmstadt. Not only have all three founders of Sitewards studied here, Sitewards has also in one way or the other contributed to several department websites at TUD. The website for the Computational Engineering department of TU-Darmstadt is the fifth such website that Sitewards has designed. The website is simple, beautiful, based on DIV tags, and easily maintained and updated by the Computational Engineering department staff.

http://www.ce.tu-darmstadt.de/

BCI (Brava-Casa-Real-Estate internacional S. L.) is one of the oldest customers of Sitewards. Over the years, Sitewards has developed a website, with an ever increasing number of languages, and several software tools for managing their properties, customer information and uploading information on to their website. Read the case study here. As BCI grows across Europe, it is finding customers in the Eastern European countries and especially in Russia. This website, therefore, is in Russian - the sixth language so far.

http://www.bci-immobilien.de/ru/

Through the new internet-presence, the new Corporate Design (logo, fonts and colours) of the company will be presented for the first time. On the new website with the new search function (supported by the "Web 2.0" Technology, AJAX), there are currently over 250 Mercedes Benz Jahreswagen offered - directly coupled with a user interface for AutoHirch-employees for the management of cars, customers, news and including automatic conversion, logo-watermark insertion and uploading of photos of the cars. Behind this website, there is much more hidden, that is not visible in the first view. This assignment is a prime example of what Sitewards' projects look like and how we integrate our Design and Technology capabilities with inputs from Marketing and Consulting.Therefore we will soon publish a comprehensive Case Study of this project as a "Reference Project".

http://www.AutoHirch.com/

Today, in the current issue of the Wirtschaftswoche, in the section "Beruf + Erfolg" from ages 175 to 178, the article appears along with a report on yet another Search Engine Optimiser, about how Sitewards goes about the task of Search Engine Optimisation. We discussed the basic knowledge about Search Engine Optimisation - what is allowed, what will be punished by search engines with a bad ranking, and some information that ensures promising growth in online marketing and Search Engine Optimisation. The photo of the Sitewards team appears on page 176, and the text of the interview on page 178.

Late entry from 28.10.2005: The complete article is now also available online.

The magazine Wirtschaftswoche (publishing house Handelsblatt) will publish, probably next week in their next issue, a two-side article about the interview with Sitewards and the webdesigners' work in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

After last week's request through the editor's group, an editor of Wirtschaftswoche from the Köln/Düsseldorf office, visited Sitewards's office in Darmstadt. The subject of the ensuing two hour interview was the work the Webdesigners and Programmers put in for SEO.

Apparently this interview will be published (in print and online) next week, in the form of a 2-side article (including a photo of the Sitewards team). We thank Wirtschaftswoche for their interest and their kind visit, and we are happy that after ProSiebenSat.1 another well known media house reached us through this Internet presence to seek our expertise.

Late entry from 14.10.2005: After the interview last week, it was decided within Wirtschaftwoche's team to allocate more space to the article in the next issue. To follow up, Wirtschaftswoche sent a photographer from Wiesbaden to Sitewards. This picture shows the equipment scattered all over, brought here by the photographer for us to "smile at the camera!"

In Frankfurt, the construction of the visionary project, "Frankfurthochvier" is being recorded by a Webcam. Sitewards helped with the installation of this Webcam and created a stable remote-management solution for the technology to enable frequent saves of this view of Europe's roof. On the Commerzbank Tower, in the outdoor-housing, runs a customised and internet-connected iMac, that can be maintained easily by Kaleidomenia over VPN and VNC. The pictures taken from this webcam will be later used to make a Memomotion Study Film.

The Commerbank Tower, built by Norman Foster, was until 2003 the tallest building of Europe and is an imposing Skryscraper in "Mainhatten".

One of the leading German media concerns, "ProSiebenSat1 AG" contacted Sitewards on telephone today. The subject was expertise about Webdesign and Websites, and we were therefore asked to evaluate free Internet offers to host private homepages for the TV-Program "Planetopia". During the discussion we were asked if it was alright to visit us with a small camera team. The idea was to pick internet users "on the streets" and ask them to get a private homepage from Sitewards and see how it develops - interspersed with "expert comments" from Sitewards.

Late entry on 22.09.2005: After this initial discussion, ProSiebenSat has not got back to us. We understand that the program was developed in the mean time, without our contribution. Nevertheless we are happy to know that ProSiebenSat found us worthy to discuss expert opinions on this subject.

The men's fashion store 'Löffelholz-Herrenmode' based in Lorsch contracted Sitewards for the creation of a new Website. In the new form, the Website will have an easy to maintain Webshop for about 20 branded products. This offer is especially created for the needs of business customers who know their favourite brand and their size and do not wish to spend the time to visit the shop in person.

Sitewards will also reserve additional Domains, to be forwarded to the 'Löffelholz Herrenmode' website.

Late entry on 11.10.05: The new Website and the Webshop are now online (http://www.loeffelholz-herrenmode.de). Furthermore, Sitewards will conduct Search Engine Optimisation - with the aim that
Löffelholz Herrenmode is always found on the first page of results for about 30 chosen search terms.

The Robocup 2005, the World Championship of Robot Football, took place in Osaka, Japan this year. Marc Dassler and his German Team travelled to Japan, the motherland of robots to successfully defend their World Champions' title which they won in Lisbon, Portugal last year. The field of participants included universities and research institutes from around the world. By their sheer numbers, the field was dominated by Japanese teams.

Marc Dassler's Team played in the "4 Legged League"of the Robocup. In this league participants program "Aibo" Robot Dogs from Sony to play Football by replacing the built-in software by self programmed software.

Sitewards is currently developing the functions to optimise the backend of its customer Schiku's Webshop. This includes the automatic uploading and import of webshop data and the automatic resize of the accompanying images.

As soon as this development step is ready, our customer will be able to maintain the data of his Webshop easier with more regular and faster updates. Everything at the press of a button and fully automatic!

Sitewards developed the Schiku-Webshop towards the end of 2004 based on the Open-Source Webshop OsCommerce - customised to the special needs of this customer. Schiku currently gets hundreds of orders through the Webshop.

The Sitewards Team expands its capabilities and offering-spectrum with the joining of Kshitij "Tidsch" Gupta, for supporting our customers with professional Marketing and establishing a well-aligned company strategy. Kshitij Gupta brings several years of experience from India's booming IT and Consulting industry, and is responsible for Marketing at Sitewards GmbH and Marketing activities and strategy formulation in contracts with our customers.

Sitewards has begun work on the Webshop integration for 3t nails. This project includes automatic uploads of customer and product data including passwords directly from 3t nails' ERP System into the Webshop. This will be derived from a complete a optical redesign of the 3t nails Website.

3t nails (earlier 3T Cosmetics) is a fast-growing company in the German Wellness Industry. After the decision to focus on Nail Cosmetics and complimentary accessories, Sitewards, the long time thchnology partner of 3t, was given the contract for the Integration of the ERP system with the 3t nails Webshop. At the same time, Sitewards is working for the preparations of 3t nails' new appearance for the Cosmetica trade fair in Wiesbaden. This work includes Catalogs, Flyers, Flags, new Letter-heads, Visiting cards and lots more.

In order to complete the ever growing number of Design and Webdesign projects of our customers, the Sitewards Design team has been strengthened by Jörg Dittmann and Joe Sarembe. Both of them bring a fresh gust of wind, a lot of talent and energy into the team. With their assignments in Sitewards Corporate Design and the Sitewards website they will assist the Art Director, Constantin Kammerer, with the conceptualisation of Corporate Designs and creation of Marketing material for our customers.

A lot of work has been put in behind the new internet presence of Sitewards GmbH. After having no website ourselves, with the line, "The shoemaker has the worst shoes", Sitewards' own website will now welcome its customers, partners and prospective employees. On the new website, one can find information about Sitewards' spectrum of offerings, with references and case studies of past projects.

Sitewards has a new customer - the printing company HMD-Druck in Griesheim. In the first order we will develop a new Corporate Design and a fitting redesign of the Website. Sitewards has also taken over the Hosting of the HMD-Druck Website and will be responsible for firther developments and changes..

Sitewards GmbH has signed Robert Kolka, from Frankfurt, as their Lawyer and Legal Consultant for Sitewards' customers. Robert has helped Sitewards with the formation of the GmbH and will be further assisting Sitewards with the creation of Customer, Employee and Partner contracts. He will also be responsible for overlooking the legal issues around Sitewards' work. In addition to consulting for Sitewards, Robert will also extend his services to Sitewards' customers who might need legal assistance with some projects.

The Sitewards team is growing. Sitewards GmbH hired its first employee, Wolfgang Braun, as 'System Administrator and Software & Hardware Consultant'. Wolfgang will be responsible for consulting with Sitewards' and its customers for Software and hardware installations, designing and deploying their IT & Communications backbone, and managing their servers and firewalls.

Bernd Lichtenecker takes over the responsibility for Finance, Accounts and Taxation at Sitewards. Along with taking care of the finances of the new Sitewards GmbH, he will play a pivotal role in the organisation and management of finance and accounts projects for our customers.

Sitewards has moved to a new office space at Pallaswiesenstr. 63, 64293 Darmstadt. This office was selected after visiting about a dozen other options around Darmstadt. The new office can accomodate about 8 to 10 employees.

The partners of Sitewards, Marc Dassler, Constantin Kammerer and Carsten Takac, signed the agreement ("Gesellschaftsvertrag") to make their company (formerly "sitewards.com - Dassler Kammerer Takac GbR") a GmbH company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung), the German equivalent of a Limited or LLP company. Prof. Dr. Horst Geschka of TU-Darmstadt was their primary Advisor for the formation of the GmbH.