BBC World Service

Achieving 1.6 million page impressions on story pages alone, the Olympics Live Action Feeds module was the most popular of all the Olympics related projects built by the BBC World Service team during this year's games.

"Coming up" displayed the time until the next five events, highlighting any which were under 15 minutes.

"Latest gold medalists" showed the total number of gold medals won; and on hovering over the white circle, a popup box displayed the name, country and event of the latest gold medalist.

I distinctly remember convincing the team to use border-radius for the white circle rather than using a sprite.

"In detail" was a personalised medal table showing a select list of countries selected by that language service.

The full medal table rendered all the countries who had won medals.

The modules supported 27 different languages and bi-directional layouts to render right-to-left scripts.

The design of the module would adapt to either a single- or double-column layout to allow for editorial freedom.

This project marked the move from the old static published pages to the new modular, responsive website, integrating with the English BBC News codebase.

During my employment, I worked on the release of the Afrique, Arabic, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Spanish and Russian sites.

I was exposed to the complexities of localisation including time zones, language, fonts, and layout. I had a leading role in developing the code to handle right-to-left layouts.

Due to the demographic of the services we supported, there was a large focus on supporting third-world technologies. Mobile first and progressive enhancement were extremely important for the World Service as we had to support the oldest Nokia devices connected to WAP internet.