• Top commentors of the past 30 days. As of this posting Geoff May, ChequeredManiac, and Tiffany have the most comments on this site. Edit: Don’t forget Grant at 4th place!
• User Link Feed that allows all our readers to post links to their own articles.
• We have a Twitter box for those of you that Twitter.
• And also a new Muxtape box to broadcast some of our designer’s favorite music. We’ll be adding new playlists for Adam, Liz, and probably a few others here.

If you can think of anything else cool you’d like to see in our sidebar, let us know.

Hey guys, I like the irony in this… after my mention yesterday of pushing html around for almost a decade, I hit an obstacle laying out a footer in the new world of Table-free markup. I wrote and manipulated a pile of javascript and css to try and push a footer down beneath two “float:left” divs … if you’re familiar with the Float property, it has a strange way of causing its parent to stop inheriting its contents height and width … the purpose of float:left (or right) is to allow following (or previous in the case of right float) content to wrap around it (similar to when you align-left an image inside a paragraph). This is useful when you’re creating columns of content. The annoyance comes in when you’d like that “next” piece of content to stop wrapping up around the floated element. This is where the “clear float” css class comes in. After spending probably 2+ hours going around and around with trying to layout my footer, it was a simple css style, “clear:left” that did the trick I was looking for. I had seen the ‘clear’ property forever, but it never clicked for me. I haven’t been using the ‘float’ property very long either, so that may be why I was unfamiliar with its powerful counterpart … in essence the “clear” property breaks the chain of the float property to rather start its own new line.

Jeff Finley

Top Albums of 2007 (no particular order)

Shorebirds - 7″
Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Eat People are the Luckiest People in the World
Paul Baribeau - Grand Ledge
Defiance Ohio - The Fear, The Fear, The Fear
The Sidekicks - So Long Soggy Dog

Top Films of 2007 (no particular order)

I haven’t really seen many movies that were released this year, but here are my favs that were at least released on DVD this year:

Rescue Dawn (dir Werner Herzog)
Sicko (dir Michael Moore)
This is England (dir Shane Meadows)
Funny HaHa (Andrew Buljalski)

Oliver Barrett

Top Albums of 2007

1. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
2. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
3. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
4. The F*cking Champs - VI
5. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

Top Games of 2007

1. Super Mario Sunshine Galaxy
2. Call of Duty 4
3. Rock Band
4. Mass Effect
5. Halo 3

Top Disappointments of 2007

1. The NBA finals
2. The American League Championship
3. Talib Kweli - Eardrum
4. Halo 3
5. The new Michael Jackson

Jeff Finley (me):

1. Start the Go Mania Apparel Line
2. Write more tutorials/articles for Go Mediazine
3. Spend more time working on the Arsenal and developing new products
4. Draw more
5. Launch Arsenal 2.0

Oliver Barrett:

1. Start Go Mania
2. Get more exposure for artwork in publications
3. Do a piece of print material (cd package, dvd package, poster) for a band I genuinely like and get paid for it.
4. Create a new body of work and have another gallery showing
5. Do less “grunt” work and more “fun” work

Chris Wilson:

1. More software type of resources for the arsenal
2. More motion graphic and video work
3. Offer Flash tutorials
4. Prooflab v3!!
5. Art shows at the Go Gallery

Dave Tevenal:

1. Illustrate more and experiment with more techniques.
2. Mock-up the new Go Media site.
3. Get more press in more publications.
4. Create some awesome designs for Go Mania Apparel line.
5. Attend some major design conferences.

Chris Comella:

1. Do 5 major art pieces for display in the new building (mixed media)
2. Have 10 “on location” drawing trips (botanical gardens, zoo, bowling alley…..)
3. Convert at least one person in the office to a Mac setup.
4. Seek out 10 new (fun) clients through deliverables / mail-outs .
5. Start a petition for an Imax theater for Cleveland (and get 5,000 people to sign)

Diann Mistelske:

1. Help us become more organized and productive–so we can have more fun time!
2. Spend more time working on creative projects
3. Make more art!

Kim Woll:

1. Develop an efficient system for clearing out open invoices
2. Help in developing Arsenal 2.0 and make it the best it can be
3. Make the office more neat and organized

Tim Boesel:

1. Join the Go Media Bowling Team
2. Get To know everyone better (up stairs )
3. Bring in a few new clients
4. Learn as much about css as possible.

Each member of Go Media will have their own separate post with their photos, some artwork they’ve created if applicable, and a mini bio to go along with it. You can even ask this person questions in the comments if you want. I think this will be a fun way for our readers to get an idea of who makes up the team at Go Media.

To get things started, I’ll post a group photo (click to enlarge):

So be on the lookout too meet each one of us!

Sometimes it’s hard for me to decide what to write about or what our next tutorial should be. So what better way than ask you! So, to all our loyal readers, give me some questions or suggest some topics or tutorials. I’ll stick them all in my brain and decide what to spit out next.

Go ahead and post your suggestions in the comments and my answers (if I have one) will be future posts.

The posters will be available to order on Monday. Check back here for the details on how you can get yours!

This first picture is of our favorite cat, Tekno. (yes that’s how his name is spelled!) Here he is on my desk.

Aww isn’t he cute!? The best part of my day is whenever Tekno decides to run across my desk. Sometimes he lays down and stays a while and other times he tries to eat my food. Gotta love him! Last week we all got a kick out of him going crazy over some catnip. Tekno is now in rehab and we miss him dearly. =)

Hope you liked the picture! I’ll post more soon.