In 2008 I did two large frontend jobs: as a freelancer for Neue Digitale/Razorfish GmbH I worked on the website for the german branch of the McDonalds-Franchise.  And working for Panorama 3000 I did the  frontend programming  for the new website for Sony Music (Germany), which was launched today.

I have to say I’ much more proud of the Sony site; while it’s in many respects less sophisticated than the McDonalds site my own responsibilites were far greater – I was actually the man in charge as far as frontend developement was concerned, and I was allowed to make decisions about the markup  at my own discretion and leave it to the people at Sony to integrate my stuff with their CMS.

Even so, and even with a somewhat generous budget, there were compromises, things that didn’t work as planned, or that I could have done better, or stuff that was added somewhat as an afterthought (and as of now there are some minor glitches  resulting from the transition from staging server to live server). And there were delays – while we were working Sony Music was heavily reorganised (when we started it was still Sony-BMG), so we launched a couple of months later than planned.

But the nice thing is that in the end everybody was happy. The project manager at Sony Music is happy, my employers at Panorama 3000 are happy, and that much happiness makes me a happy show-off man myself.