• 10Apr 08

  SiteBeat! Vol. 3: GameSpot Site Blog Modules

  Hey all, sorry for the extended hiatus. Was pretty busy with the SportsGamer redesign and have been involved in more sys-admin work recently.

  So, by now you're probably aware that the GameSpot Site Blogs are live. Radness!

  I whipped up a couple modules that will likely be your main gateway into GS blog land.

  There are 2 versions of the module, a) link only and b) thumb + blurb, see both below.

  

  

  These modules will show up in various places (frontdoor, features hub, sports hub, blog hubs, etc.) around the site and in forms respective to their locations (ie. you won't see a link to Spam Filter on the actual Spam Filter blog hub).

  In related news, we're hoping to get RSS feeds for the blogs set up soon.

  Thanks to K for the back-end work.

  • Posted Apr 10, 2008 4:35 pm PT
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• 28Sep 07

  404 emblem: R.I.P.

  Once a dubious honor (more like a virtual spanking, really) the GS 404 emblem has been retired. Queue trumpets!

  

  The days of publically shaming those who push bad code are behind us now. Evil site outages are to be the work of anonymous persons/unexplained events/mystical gnomes. Welcome to the future, from here on out its all 9s.

  • Posted Sep 28, 2007 5:15 pm PT
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• 26Sep 07

  SiteBeat! Vol. 1 (a posthumous affair)

  I mentioned in SiteBeat! Vol. 2 I would be writing about an earlier site enhancement project I worked on. As I recall this one generated a bit of criticism but was eventually accepted. (yay!) Without further ado, I present unto you (posthumously), the new tabbed profile info module!

  

  Another team croy/lam/oguro (Team CLO?) effort, this bad boy sports fun javascript/ajax calls for user stats, and a cleaner, modualized design to make room for more tasty goodness on the user hub.

  I would have taken a screen shot of my stats tab, which I built using a simple table, but my stats are shamefully low. So you get to look at my measly emblem collection instead.

  • Posted Sep 26, 2007 3:33 pm PT
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