Robert van Hoesel
16 year old webdesigner
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Hooray, no boring story over here...
Why? Because I'm to young to have a past, let's move on to the present:

I put a lot of time in my own business. As you may gues that's why this website is online :)

Next to my attempts to be a good entrepreneur I'm also busy developing several projects:
- Autodropper.nl A dutch, online, car-auction. Soon online.
- Nadenkertjes.nl A Christian web-blog with focus on youth. Got some big dreams for it!

Future:
If I'd have that much time as ideas.
Want to combine powers for a project? Drop me a line

The web a town?
People say the internet made the world a town. Well, I don't agree. And that's not because I'm supposed to disagree with everything because I'm a teenage rebel. No. I think instead of the internet being a town, websites should be a town. Why? Because a website should have it's own culture, habits, citizens, standards, feel and look. Just like towns have.

But how can you have website being a town? What makes a website a good website? Why? How?
Well at first, the content matters. But let's move on the next part. Design. The design should make it's visitors feel comfortable and at home. And when we are talking about businiss designs there's even a goal that must be reached through the design. The owner and/or the subject of the website should be recognizable through the design.

My aim is to create websites that, each in a different way, are both creative and beautiful, as well as making the visitor feel at home.

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How to reach the goal
I started of as a nine year old kid who freaked out after making his first website. After that first website I did not stop. We're my first challenges were to put content into a website, it improved to design in a website. All the way to where I'm now I've taught myself. An addition of failures and successes, of learning new things and training the olds created a stable lifestyle which encourages itself (and others) to teach themselves. As most resources are within arm reach on the web, supply is not the problem.

My constant self-teaching lifestyle helps me and clients to create a final product which will be loved. I often get asked to make or design something in a field which I'm not experienced in. And I often take them. They are a new opportunity for failure as it is an opportuniry for learning.

When learning things because of interest, and out of free will is so much different from an obilatagory program!

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The point of view
Every time I start a new design process I start by thinking of me, as a visitor. What do I want, what do I like, what do I hate. Through looking from this point of view the designs end up in a great user experience. Usability is one of my main key-aspects in a design.

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