What We Do

  • Web presence strategy development
  • Corporate identity development
  • Website design and redesign
  • Flat-rate website maintenance
  • Coding of pages based on a given graphic template
  • Content management system (CMS) deployment
  • Web application user interface development
  • Flash presentation and animation
  • Print design
  • Publication design
  • Translation into English, German and Croatian

Our websites are well-structured and coded strictly according to W3 Consortium standards. We specialize in multilingual sites and undertake localization rather than simply translation.

We also design for print, including illustrated magazines, books, and other publications.

The websites we build have a lifetime guarantee regarding their technical structure and browser compatibility. In other words: if any technical corrections should be required after the product has been delivered, we will make them at no cost.

If you have any questions about what we do or how we do it, please do not hesitate to drop us a line at .

 

Who We Are

Aleksandra Imogen Ivir

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1966. Attended high school in Albany, California, studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Zagreb, and the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Varaždin, Croatia.

Professional Experience

Culturelink Network, Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb

  • World Wide Web Resource Centre project management (concept development and implementation, content development and editing, translation, site design, coding, administration)
  • author and managing editor of C-News, the Culturelink e-newsletter
  • member of the Culturelink review editorial board

Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA), UNESCO, Maputo, Mozambique

  • OCPA World Wide Web project management (concept development and implementation, site design, coding, administration)
  • OCPA News e-newsletter development

Institute for International Relations (IMO), Zagreb

  • website project development, site design, content development, editing, translation, coding, scripting and administration

Europe on the Internet, Department for European Integration, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb

  • website project development and implementation, design, coding, administration
  • interactive multimedia authoring and CD-ROM production

Dr. Lebahn Consulting GmbH, Berlin, Germany

  • management of several CMS-based medical website projects (concept development and implementation, content development, site design, coding, administration)
  • development of business templates and databases, authoring and production of promotional flyers, and creation of banner graphics

Participation in the Partial Localization of MS Office 97 project, Info Centar, Zagreb.

Participation in and papers/presentations at a number of international professional conferences on cultural communication, public access and (cultural) portals.

Language Skills

Fluent in Croatian, German and English. Working knowledge of French and Spanish. Some understanding of Italian and Portuguese.

Numerous translations into English, German and Croatian; language editing.

Selected Publications

Miro Gavran, Der Patient des Doktor Freud (Dr. Freud's Patient), AGM/ZeKaeM, Zagreb – German translation

From Trade Exhibition to Fair, Zagrebački velesajam / Ars Media, Zagreb – English translation

Sports in Zagreb 1994-1996, Zagrebački športski savez / Ars Media, Zagreb – English translation

Kako se nekad računalo - ruski abak (The Calculator of the Past - The Russian Abacus), Matka, Croatian Mathematical Society – author

Egmont Strigl, Istrien entdecken (Discovering Istria), Trescher Verlag, Berlin – photography

Andor Poll, Das neue Kroatien entdecken (Discovering the New Croatia), Trescher Verlag, Berlin – photography

Honours

Culturelink WWW Resource Centre

  • selection for the World Summit Award 2003 competition in the e-culture category
  • finalist in the Culture and Entertainment category of the Stockholm Challenge Award 2001

Dražen Karaman

Born in 1959 in Zagreb, Croatia. BA in German Philology and Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb.

Career

Since January 2006

Freelance web and print designer

Sept-Dec 2005

Counsellor, Department for EU Political Affairs, Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Zagreb

2001-2005

Counsellor for political affairs, Croatian Embassy in Berlin. Deputy Chief of Mission until October 2002.

Jan-Sep 2001

Counsellor, Department for Political Planning and Analysis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zagreb

1995-2000

First Secretary, Deputy Permanent Delegate of Croatia to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Paris

1993-1994

Staff member, Secretariat of the Croatian Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Culture and Education. Move to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994.

1992

Editor, Croatian University Press (Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada)

1988-1991

Producer of social sciences programmes, Croatian Radio III

Until 1988

Freelance translator and journalist

Language Skills

Fluent in Croatian, German and English. Basic knowledge of French.

Member of the Croatian Literary Translators' Society since 1987. Published a series of translations, reviews and articles in Croatian periodicals.

Selected Bibliography

(Translations)

Thomas Mann, Indijska legenda (Indian Legend, collected short stories), Zagreb 2004

Lovro Artuković: Das Magazin (The Repository), Zagreb 2004

Karl R. Popper, Otvoreno društvo i njegovi neprijatelji, I. svezak: Platonova čarolija (The Open Society and its Enemies, vol. I: The Spell of Plato), Zagreb 2003

Immanuel Kant, Metafizika ćudoređa (The Metaphysics of Morality), Zagreb 1999

Karl R. Popper, U potrazi za boljim svijetom (Searching for a Better World), Zagreb 1997

Richard Wisser, Filozofski putokazi (Philosophic Guides), Zagreb 1992

Marie-Elise Zovko, Heideggerovo i Plotinovo poimanje vremena (Time in the Works of Heidegger and Plotinus), Zagreb 1991

Andrew Doe, John Tobler, Vlastitim riječima: The Doors (In Their Own Words: The Doors), Zagreb 1988

Burghart Schmidt, Postmoderna – strategije zaborava (Postmodernism – Strategies of Oblivion), Zagreb 1987