Brandon Kelly

Dec  4, 2007

BEA

BEA homepage

Back in July I had the opportunity to code a new homepage for BEA, based on a design they provided. It's been a few months since I delivered it, and it looks like they’ve finally published it.

There are a lot of cool things going on in the JavaScript that help keep the HTML clean and simple. Most notably, there is a simple unordered list in the HTML that lists the Featured Downloads. If Flash Player 8+ is installed, JavaScript will grab all the links in the list, replace the list with a Flash object, and feed the links back to the Flash object. If the user does not have Flash Player 8+ installed, the list stays put, and is styled somewhat similarly to what the Flash object looks like through CSS.