I’m a big fan of Sketch. It has its flaws, but generally it’s a much better tool to make designs than Photoshop. I especially love it’s simplicity and ease of use. Nevertheless it has many options and tweaks, which are not apparent at first sight, but can make your life so much easier. Therefore I decided that I want to contribute to the Sketch community and so I came up with the idea of sketchtips.info. There I try to provide a broad range of tips for Sketch.

I try to do a series of “How I built sketchtips.info” in the coming weeks to describe a few interesting techniques I’ve used throughout the project. So stay tuned.

Since the company I work for – Netconomy – is growing like crazy, we are searching for many different roles at the moment: Frontend-Designers, JAVA Software-Developer, Mobile/HTML5 Developer, Scrum Master and much more. Do you want to work and live in the lovely country of Austria? Join us now! Yes you need to know a little bit of German. Please also tweet me at @Chris_Krammer, so that I can reference you.

One of the oldest problems of CSS seems to be vertical aligning. Although there is the well-known vertical-align property, you can’t just set vertical-align: middle for a block and everything inside gets centered vertically. While there is still no “one-property-solution” we have a broad selection of techniques which enable to center things vertically.

Thanks to my employer Netconomy I was able to attend the Frontendconf 2013 in Zurich this year a few days ago. Not only that the event was carefully planned, but there were also some great talks I’d like to share with you.

Many years ago, when the Internet was still young and web design more a dalliance than a profession, you didn’t need much to build a website. A programme called Microsoft Frontpage, a so called WYSIWYG editor sufficed to publish something everybody else could read. No coding skills required. The outcome was mostly far away from beautiful and the generated code looked even worse.