rant whine 'splain espouse: Download.com's Staff Favorites 2004

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Download.com's Staff Favorites 2004

So I've been working on this feature for the past week: Download.com's Staff Favorites of 2004. Staffers could submit their favorite download in the Games, Software, and Music categories on our site.

I'm pretty happy with the way it came out, although it was a tight deadline so I didn't have time to do any interactivity; I would have preferred all the image links to be mouseovers. But there wasn't time.

I did all the HTML in CSS with minimal use of tables (although it gets plonked into a template by our production staff, and the templates are a jumble of terribly bloated table code -- I fully expect to address this early next year). Of course, I also did the design, which is my actual job. Doing the HTML is a bonus. It's a bonus for me because it allows me to learn more CSS as I go. And it's a bonus to our production staff because it makes their job really, really easy.

BTW, I'm not the guy with the bag over his head. But yes, my photo is included on the feature.