Come Join the Giant Bomb Design Team

That's gonna be one hell of a long vacation if you need to hire someone new.

Working with SASS/Compass for almost a year now, thanks to Alexis and Dave mentioning it on the radio show. I'm currently working on my first responsive design on a large social site. I'll get to Alexis' & Dave's level eventually!

I remember when I was in high school and HTML and CSS was in it's infancy (mid 90s) I was so good at coding. I made websites all weekend for various clients and I really thought I would do it as a career. College came and I chose to focus on Photography/Production/Cinematography as a career emphasis and didn't keep up with the new innovations of web 2.0 and all the crazy shit that had been implemented in the time I was away. Man, it is IMPOSSIBLE to jump back in. The stuff that you web developers do nowadays is so far beyond anything that was being done 10-15 years ago, it's like a completely different thing entirely. The stuff done on this site alone boggles my mind.

So yeah, good luck to any one who is fortunate enough to land this job. If Drew or Vinny ever need help, I've got 10 years experience working for network/cable TV as a DP/Producer/Shooter... I'm your guy!

@heatdrive88 said:

I do, just to tell you how much you ruin the internet for everyone!

Honestly that helps a lot more then a program that dose the work for you, the first step to programming is knowing how to code by your self.

I started learning C++, and just learning how the general flow of design was, it was very easy to pick up Javascript, Java, Action Script, HTML, CSS, and a lot of other things.

Not related to your comment at all:

I was using Microsoft Visual C++ at first, and basically just copying and pasting from Google, but never really learned how to code. But as soon as I lowered my expectations at first from a Stealth 3d Platformer. To a text based rouge like, it was much easier to program myself and learn, as I did. And from there I just kept learning new things. That was 10 years ago.

His kid is going to be born soon. Who knows how long he'll be gone.

California and their paternity leave...

LOOK AT MY AWESOME DESIGN ABILITY.

Those images are so well balanced and amazingly designed.

I am even balancing out this post by putting my text on the right hand side, opposite my images.

I have great designing ability, and i am a photoshop wizard.

HIRE ME NOW.

I'm gonna miss Dave

Too bad that I'm currently in the process of studying all of those things and just getting started with my portfolio (career changes are tough). I would love to go up there and learn a thing or two from all you guys (and gals?). Maybe in the future?

Yeah I had grand plans of creating my own FPS (along the lines of the first Doom) but then I realized what I was learning in that class wasn't nearly enough to do such a thing. :(

Hahaha.

Well, let me start by telling you about Google Adwords campaigns... and how you can sign up for our monthly newsletter! And how to cut your cost per conversion by over 50%! And how to boost your social media engagement! Let me tell you a thing or two about Content Management Systems.

I know, sometimes my job seems super-scummy.

hey Dave, if you are going on paternity leave then it ain't gonna be no vacation :-P

@alexisg Responsive workflow is something I'm looking at right now so I was wondering if you're using anything in particular for rapid prototyping in markup? Or is it just hand written from scratch?

I'm really good at guitar hero, so you should probably hire me.

Care to say which site?

I love Mondays!

Is a PhD in Mechanical Engineering good for the job?

I almost had a heartattack cause I somehow missread and thought that Dave left GB. Man, those were awful 3 seconds.

I can bust out greasemonkey/tampermonkey and tweak pages to my liking, but that's as far as I've gotten since I took that one early HTML class in highschool back before the internet was worth getting onto to browse.

I once created a Final Fantasy character bio page with a Doom midi on loop for a middle school computer sciences project... And later that week I created an outline of a guy with a flat top and cool shades giving a thumbs up in C++. Also, in high school I farted out tons of images that were vignetted on top of other sepia toned images for a photography class and got all A's because high school art teachers don't understand technology. One time I almost actually completed Vampire Rain. So you KNOW I'm tough enough. You know where to find me.

What if the replacement's name....is Dave?

@kanerobot said:

Will he be Hardcore? And play random PC games sometimes with Vinny and Drew?

I can draw a stick figure! Does that help any?

I got 70% in Introduction to C at university, own a moustache and like dragons. I guess I should expect the offers any day now.

I do UI design.

I'd kill to see what this job pays, given the market and war for talent. Good designers who also know closures, mixins (and why Less sucks), git-flow branching strats, compiled template namespacing techniques, etc etc are hard to come by, to say the least.

I sincerely wish you guys luck.

All I have is pizzazz.

So do I get the job?

my html/css/photoshop is up to par but i cant be bothered with javascript or other programming languages.. coding is so boring to me. Give me Photoshop all day long and i'd be a happy camper.

Besides, this is probably for those living in the area?

I have a BA in Classical Archaeology, can we fudge the requirements of this job a bit?

Where is dave going and for how long? :(.

No scrubs.

@teh_destroyer: Dadhood. Rest of his life.

Robbed you twice.

What are sass functions? And are they sassy

I'm almost finished with the CSS course on Code Academy, do I qualify?

This description of what they need fits me like a glove. One of such includes Norway's biggest retro game site, The DOS Spirit. Too bad I live in Norway.

I'm actually a web developer, but what you guys are looking for is a clone of Alexis or Dave.

Too bad I'm a back-end programmer and not a web designer. Would love to come work with you guys.

The best I can do is offer to babysit, so that Dave still has to go to work and miss the most important years of his child's life.

I don't know a thing about web design, but I do know how to buy sandwiches and beer.

Exactly how long is "a bit"? Daaave ;_;

Man Alexis, if I wasn't sorely needed at the dev studio I'm at, I would be soooooooo down to apply. I'm confident I'd be able to fill the role, but I can't leave these guys. We're as tight knit as you guys at GB. If only you guys needed this position filled mid last year. :(

Is Dave out on Paternity? Or is he quitting for good?

I'm pretty sure he's the best with those sass functions. The sassiest functions.

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Damn! I'm currently studying a BCS majoring in Website development/website app development with database knowledge. If only I still wasn't studying! =O internship maybe?

Doesn't have a name yet. It's not going to be large popularity wise, just the feature set is. Essentially, it's a network of social sites for people living in municipalities. Each site is the online hub for a certain municipality. It's a local government contract.

No items. Fox only. Final Destination.

i've seen these words before, but never in this order. :|