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David Steeb

CEO, b13 Founder

David wears a lot of hats at b13:

  • Business Roles:
    • Co-Founder/CEO
    • New business, business development
    • Taxes and accounting
  • Technical Role: Frontend and integration 
Tools David can’t live without:
  • b13
  • PhpStorm

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 considering 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, 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, relaunch
  • UX, editor experience, design, responsive
  • Performance, 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

  • Stop learning.
  • Never take b13 for granted.
Latest articles by David Steeb
Feature Image for Article Why choose On-Prem over SaaS for your CMS?
Why choose On-Prem over SaaS for your CMS?
| David Steeb

Enterprises now have many software delivery channel options to choose from. With software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-based implementation models on the rise, you might be trying to figure out the best software delivery channel to support your enterprise’s digital strategy. If you don’t have an internal IT department, SaaS can be tempting, but when you also have stringent data compliance needs, an on-premises (or on-prem for short) solution is your best bet.

Feature Image for Article Simplify your page configuration with our extension
Simplify your page configuration with our extension
| David Steeb

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.

Feature Image for Article Make more cost-effective decisions for your CMS
Make more cost-effective decisions for your CMS
| David Steeb

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.

Feature Image for Article Powerful Content Staging in TYPO3 with Workspaces
Powerful Content Staging in TYPO3 with Workspaces
| David Steeb

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?