b13 Founder and CEO, David, is a reluctant administrative wizard, father (of three children and all of the b13 family), and someone you’ll meet if you’re thinking about working with our agency. Somehow, he still finds time to be constantly learning new skills and is an influential part of our cutting-edge frontend practice. He loves lightning fast websites, inline CSS, and taking templating to new levels. He loves hamburgers a little bit more.
Expertise
- Solutions, delivering value, ROI
- Learning, listening, agreements, partnership, international
- Questions, asking why, saying “no” (somebody has to sometimes)
- TYPO3, extensions, v10, relaunch
- UX, editor experience, design, responsive
- Performance, AMP, SEO, RSS, user stories, testing
- Teamwork, trust, values, family, understanding
- Open source, contribution
- Breakfast, burgers, gin & tonic
David and TYPO3
TYPO3 is fast, powerful, flexible, and extensible. We built our agency on it and it has proved its value many times over in the last 15+ years. We’ve never had a challenge (that was appropriate for a CMS in the first place) that we couldn’t solve in TYPO3. Its architecture and stability enables us to plan and work in the long-term. We have projects running on version 10 today that we have been able to continuously improve, develop, and upgrade since setting them up in TYPO3 version 4.x.
David on working at b13
What I love about b13
I love working with a team of people that love what they are doing. It’s an office and a company full of people that want to be there, because they like it. It’s our job, it’s hard work sometimes, but we still have fun.
My favorite thing about b13
We celebrate our successes, but never stop challenging ourselves to be even better next time. We are proud of what we did but not content to simply repeat it. We want to work with cutting edge technology, learning new things and make the next project even better than the last one. That being said, our ambition is to design solutions not limited by the tools we use, but rather, choose the right tools to help us achieve the desired outcome.
How b13 helps our clients and the world
We don’t want to reuse and resell the same solution over and over, but we do reuse our experience and what we learn from one project to the next. We’re not specialised in reselling a cloned solution to another client. We build custom solutions for our clients that fit their unique needs to the best of our abilities. And we build systems that last; that we are able to (and want to) maintain for multiple years.
David’s Dos and Don’ts
- Test your code
- ask why
- think ahead
- see the big picture
- (try to) understand what you're doing
- Stop learning.
- Never take b13 for granted.
Latest articles by David Steeb
Powerful Content Staging in TYPO3 with Workspaces
If you need to publish or update content in multiple languages at the same time, or involve others to sign off or edit content before publishing, then content staging is the solution you’re looking for. Did you know TYPO3 solves this out of the box with the Workspaces module?
Make more cost-effective decisions for your CMS
At b13, we’re often approached by CMOs and CEOs disgruntled by escalating costs. What seems like a relatively “cheap” CMS or software solution can often come with hidden or long-term expenses—like multiple relaunches, jumps in licensing fees, or pricey additions. As an agency committed to free and open source software like TYPO3, we’re dedicated to helping companies make forward-thinking decisions for their content strategy. In the process, we’ve identified some best practices for making smart, cost-effective decisions for your CMS.
Simplify your page configuration with our extension
TYPO3’s separation of content and code is one of its major strengths. TYPO3 saves content in containers called content elements, which you can stack in content areas on a page record to create pages. The different parts of this highly configurable setup include “page types” (defined by the “doktype” field value in the pages database table record), a “backend layout” configuration, and possibly a third, separate “frontend layout” configuration value. We combine these components in various ways to enable different scenarios and desired outcomes.
Why performance matters
A slow website is loosing you business. Here's why performance of your website matters – and what you can do to improve yours. We found on a recent relaunch of a client website that the search ranking for their most important keywords significantly improved just by optimizing website performance.
TYPO3 CMS Meets DMEXCO 2019
b13 will be part of the official TYPO3 Project presence at DMEXCO19 in Cologne (Hall 8.1, Booth D020). On September 11 and 12, three of us will be there showing off how great TYPO3 CMS is in 2019. We’re on a mission to convince people who haven’t tried out TYPO3 in a while to give it another look. We’ll talk with one and all about how we can help you solve your digital business challenges, too. Join us for a Kölsch beer in the Domstadt!