Marking My Territory
Since September of this year, I spend the majority of Monday through Friday working for Critical Mass. And since that time, I’ve been on the Hyatt account, responsible for a lot of the Hyatt website. I don’t do much programming and when I do it tends to be little pieces here and there, and nothing all that noticeable or worth mentioning. But last week that all changed when Hyatt joined the Web 2.0 revolution and added an AJAX-driven auto-suggest on the Location search field on the main page of the Hyatt site.
Of course, it was Aaron that did all the cool stuff® that you can see – all the HTML, Javascript and other associated markup magic. But I did all the coding on the server-side that made Aaron’s stuff possible. Regardless, it’s cool to say that a certain piece of a large, high-traffic website is your handiwork.
The auto-suggest piece has been on the Hyatt website for over week now so I think it’s fairly safe to say that my mark on Hyatt is here to stay. You can click on the image for a larger sample view or you can visit the Hyatt website and check it out for yourself. And if client (and hopefully user) reaction to this new piece is good, then I expect that we will see used in other areas of the site.
Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:05 Posted in Programming
