About us

Robin Poort is designing and developing websites more than ten years now. On top of teaching himself about web design for years, he also completed a formal education for Graphic Designers (at the top of his class) at the Grafisch Lyceum in Utrecht. He has also taken classes at the Art Academy, which is also located in Utrecht.

The knowledge he has gained in this process is synergized with an active and musical life to become a large creative force. What's important to note is that the business perspective will not be forgotten by him in this process. Besides work Robin likes to play the bass guitar and practices several sports. His primary tasks for ThemePartner are: (X)HTML, CSS, design, usability and developing new templates.

Theo van der Zee has been actively involved in web design for over ten years. Like most professionals in the field, he has learned most of what he knows about web design and SEO through various websites, blogs and books. Not only does this show a great level of improvisation talent, but also a will to keep learning.

Webdesign is not his only interest however. In 2009 Theo has received a Master's degree (MSc) at the Utrecht University in Work and Organisational Psychology. He also likes to go surfing, watch TV shows (such as How I Met Your Mother, Dexter and Lie to Me) and play beach volleyball. His primary tasks for ThemePartner are: search engine optimization, PR, marketing and keeping the blog up to date.

Koen Kuipers has been a professional PHP programmer for more than five years. Before working with PHP professionally he - like many others - used PHP for personal projects. In 2008 he passed the Zend PHP 5 Certification Exam. He does most of his programming work (using Netbeans) on Ubuntu Linux, but has recently bought a MacBook Pro, so that will probably change. Besides programming he is interested in tech stuff and gadgets like smart phones and tablets.

His hobbies include running, listening to several kinds of music and watch TV series like Lost, Fringe and House. His primary tasks for ThemePartner are: PHP programming, server administration, automating brain dead work and other 1337 stuff.

Erik Duits grew up with a passion for computers and cars. About 10 years ago, an interest in web design was sparked when customers of his computer repair shop began asking for small but unique websites. Back then, most of Erik's designs were Flash based. After discovering Joomla! about 5 years ago, things changed. His websites were no longer built in Flash and because Joomla! took care of most of the technical problems, Erik could start focussing more on his designs in Fireworks.

He started using his environment for inspiration, causing new designs to pop up out of small and sometimes meaningless events. These days Erik enjoys almost every minute of his design work. His primary tasks for ThemePartner are: template design and (usability) testing.