The work that I did for VersionTracker.com is finally seeing the light of day.
The new developer connect system is available, and looks so much better than the last one (no frames!). I spent a majority of the summer and fall working on this – the various forms went through a hefty amount of revisions but after several months it all paid off.
Here is a small image of the default page after logging in to dev connect:
The new category navigation system is finally visible. The original specification did not have the fade-out that you see now, but that was one of my recommendations as the menu was vanishing too quickly.
The sub-category navigation took some work getting things to work properly across the various browsers, but it looks great!
The new Updates by Category page looks good too. The grid system was fairly simple, although I had some tweaks to do in IE6/7.
The menu was the most difficult part, and unfortunately I didn’t have any time to clean up my javascript (don’t look at the source!). Getting the sub menu to display and have a hover color in both IE6 and Safari was a pain. I wasted several days and several emails to the css-discuss list trying to figure out what was happening. I finally found a work-around, but the javascript is still ugly.
VT uses the prototype framework on some pages, so I was trying to see if they wanted to use it on the home page, however I left in the middle of those decisions. VT already suffers from an immensely high page size, so I doubt they want another library attached.
Although it’s been out for a while, the VT subscription system is the only xhtml/css work that’s entirely from me.
