About

moving-insect.com

Formerly this page was known as thehpage.com, but people got too confused by its spelling. So there had to be a new name for the site. The name “moving insect” comes from the way I used to shoot pictures. I always tried to get a picture of people without them recognizing me taking pictures. So I had to hold the camera as if I was just walking around with it. As a result the perspective of most of the photos was from the bottom up. The camera was like an insect: crawling around next to my body, looking up on all those wandering people ...so this is how I came up with the name for the site.

The design of this page is the latest one of a series of approaches I created for a relaunch. Almost every time I thought that I would create a new version based on the latest design. But I was never satisfied with some aspects of the design. So at one point I just made the decision that this would be the one to be published.

The page makes some use of Javascript / AJAX features which include the slideshow (based on slimbox and mootools) and other small features like the fading effects or the comment preview. However I changed the slimbox code in order to get the close button on the top right corner and to have the navigation at the bottom. In addition to that I keep track of the number of photo views via AJAX.

About the author

My Name is Henrik Wissing and I am digital media designer. I've been working as a webdesigner for an internet company in Aachen, Germany with an focus on search engine optimization, usability and accessibility. Right now I'm studying business and computer science in Dresden, Germany. My hobbies are improv, snowboarding, taking pictures, design, jogging, rollerskating, movies, etc. You can find a couple of photos of me in the digital mirror section.