About this website

This is the website of Staffan Tamm, also known as Stefan Tamm, and it is not a blog nor a gallery, but perhaps a bit of both.

The screenshots illustrate some of the stages in the evolution of this website. The very first version was a travel site at GeoCities.com and it gradually evolved into Stefan's Travel Page which was hosted by a couple of hosting services, including Utfors and f2s ("Free to Surf").

When I finally decided to obtain my own domain, I chose the name "Vildmarksfoto" which is Swedish for "Wilderness photography". This was inspired by the fact that among the first images to be pub­lished on the new site, were photos by a group of photographers from different Nordic countries, who had been photographing wildlife from hides built by Lassi Rautiainen in eastern Finland. Some of those photos can be viewed here.

The page header images from left to right: Bee hummingbird or "zunzuncito" in Cuba, three pictures of brown bears at Lake Kuril on the Kamchatka peninsula, and a Gentoo penguin at Dorian Bay, Antarctica.

Apart from sharing photos and notes from my travels and photo projects, I have used this site to demo solutions that I have proposed to build for clients through my company, ST BioComputing.

A few examples of database-driven websites built and/or maintained by ST BioComputing

• VetBact - A virtual laboratory and database with information about bacteria of veterinary interest, created primarily for students at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
• AgriMyc - A virtual laboratory and database with information about apecies of importance in agriculture and veterinary myco­logy. Like VetBact, it was originally created for students at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
• EAVLD - The European Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians.
• SGS - The Scandinavian Geographic Society (in Swedish).

For this site, however, I am not using a database-driven CMS (Content Management System). In the interest of keeping it simple and almost maintenance-free, I have chosen a publishing tool called Yellow from which this static website can be generated automatically after each update of the contents. A more user friendly CMS, such as Drupal, tends to be more complex 'under the hood' and must therefore be updated ("patched") regularly.

Stefan/Staffan Tamm

Updated: 23 Apr, 2022.