@openmindculture (Ingo Steinke)

creative web developer for accessible, fast, and sustainable websites since 1997

Location: Berlin, Germany. Pronouns: he/him. Profession: web developer. Availability: freelance.

Primary tech: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (JS), TypeScript (TS), node.js, PHP, MySQL, Symfony, Shopware.

Projects and Demos

Open Mind Culture
Multilingual personal weblog and theme development side project, about to be rebuilt with a full stack local host someday.

www.open-mind-culture.org

open-mind-culture-org (project source code)

wp-fasto-child-theme (theme source code)

wp-incompatibility-status (plugin source code)
- blog
- weblog
- side project
- wordpress-theme
- wordpress-plugin
- css
- php
- polyglot
- seo
Kleiderordnung Berlin
Portfolio website for sustainable fashion consultant Tina Steinke in Berlin, using a hybrid classic WordPress theme with custom front page and block enabled pages.

kleiderordnung.berlin (website)

kleiderordnung-berlin (source code)
- portfolio
- website
- fashion
- consultant
- berlin
- pastel
- animated
- wordpress-theme
- custom-post-types
- css
- javascript
- php
- html
Twisted Connection
For the co-creation startup Twisted Connection's website relaunch, we extended the design system and reused the existing content and kept the existing WordPress page builder, Divi.

Twisted Connection
- portfolio
- cocreation
- consultant
- startup
- website
- css
- javascript
- cms
- wordpress-theme
- divi
- devux
Food Together
The ecological online shop Food Together provides customers with hight quality prouduce sent directly from the mostly local farms to their homes. We keep optimizing the exisiting WooCommerce block theme to make the website more ecologically sustainable and improve its web performance.

www.foodtogether.de
- startup
- sustainability
- food
- online-shop
- e-commerce
- woocommerce
- wordpress-theme
- block-theme
- scss
- css
Cost Transparency
This free Shopware 6 extension adds a new tab on the product details page for data visualization of a product's cost factors, so we can show our customers where exactly their money goes to build trust and add facts to back our sustainability claims with detailed data.

sw-IngoSCostTransparency (source code)

store.shopware.com (extension page)
- shopware-extension
- shopware-plugin
- data-visualization
- e-commerce
- symfony
- php
- twig
- css
Free IDE Themes
Inspired by a VS Code theme of the same name, Cute Pink Light theme is part of a series of free themes, including Orange Rain Dark Theme, Orange Rain Light Theme, and Commodore Night Dark Theme, to customize PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEA code editors.

intellij-cute-pink-light-theme (source code)

Cute Pink Light Theme (theme page)

Orange Rain Light Theme

Orange Dark Light Theme

Commodore Night Dark Theme
- theme
- editor-theme
- customization
- light-theme
- dark-theme
- phpstorm
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open-source web development, best practices and optimization

openmindculture: a web developer's GitHub profile

Web developer Ingo Steinke has published most of his personal work and some of his customers' projects as open-source code on GitHub. Ingo's primary public GitHub profile, openmindculture, is also his nickname on several other developer sites and communites and matches his blog motto of an 'open mind culture'. Ingo has co-founded a web design, web development, and e-commerce startup in 2000. After working as an employee for a couple of German companies, focusing on e-commerce, mobile websites, responsive web design, and web performance optimization, Ingo became self-employed as a freelance webdeveloper in 2020.

frontend focus, progressive enhancement, and devUX collaboration

As an experienced old-school web developer, Ingo's progressive enhancement approach starts with content, markup, and CSS before adding JavaScript or TypeScript only if needed, but he has also worked with React, Vue, and jQuery. His full-stack experience includes PHP, MySQL, and node.js for backend development, and Docker, Webpack, Jenkins, Netlify, and GitHub actions. Beyond devOps, Ingo strives to improve "devUX" collaboration between web developers and designern, and tries to make websites and web apps more accessible and environemntally efficient. Usability, accessibility, and efficiency can become a challenge when customers depend on existing projects built using WordPress and legacy custom code. But Ingo knows about many quirks and workarounds and, after all, he's a creative web developer striving to develop a better solution.

content, best practices, and website optimization

Ingo also knows about search engine optimization (SEO), which is the main reason for this page and the verbosity of the text on it. Optimizing websites requires creativity to create more content that contains relevant terms and phrases without exactly repeating the same sentences that have been used on other websites before. Adding content and providing web services that users find helpful also improves ranking, and so does paying attention to best practices concerning structured data, semantic markup, responsive web design, web performance, accessibility, and usability.