Pascal Altena designs and builds sites, apps, and games

20+ years of web/app design and front end development

I started designing websites and web at around 1995, got admitted into CIBAP, a graphical design school in The Netherlands in 1996, and landed my first job as a professional web designer in 1998.

Shortly after that I learned HTML, CSS and Javascript and have been developing those skills ever since. Between 1998 and 2009 I worked at several companies and startups, designing and coding for large scale projects for companies such as Consumentenbond.nl, Sanoma, ANWB, PostNL, AKN, Forius / ABN AMRO and many more.

I designed and built web apps and later designed few native apps for iOS and Android.

Full time Freelance work

In 2009 I worked Freelance work full time, working on many project ranging from small to big.

Design tools

Nowadays I design in a variety of apps such as Adobe XD, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop and Blender. For the past few years my preferred weapon of choice for designing and illustrating is Affinity Designer.

Development tools

HTML5
CSS / SCSS
Javascript
jQuery
GruntJS
Sublime Text
Adobe XD
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Affinity Designer
Sketch
Balsamiq Mockups

I code HTML5, Javascript + jQuery and SCSS / Sass. I code Wordpress Themes from the ground up using Timber. I often build static websites for projects where a CMS is overkill. I use GruntJS to automate many things such as code concatenation, spritesheet generation, minification and more. I use Git for version control.