Oscar Godson

Junior Developer
Taste Tester

"I taught myself to make web sites by making the worst web site. Ever."

Let's get straight to the point. We're pretty sure Oscar was abducted by scientists at an early age and had bionic super DNA embedded into his brain. We know this to be true, because there is no way a 17-year-old kid could be as accomplished as he is.

If you ask Oscar, he'll get an embarrassed smile on his face and tell you about how he got tired of high school, so he dropped out at 16, got his GED and started college at the age of 17. And then, that's when the startling admissions come out. Oscar created the worst web page ever to help promote the videos he and his friend were making and posting on YouTube. Scrolling marquees, blinking elements, errors everywhere, and messy, redundant code. The whole disaster.

Oscar took it upon himself to right these wrongs and engrossed himself in learning all he could about XHTML and CSS validation, web standards and how to make a cool web site without all of the gimmicky trappings of scrolling marquees and blinking text.

At Workshed, Oscar is our go-to guy for what we call “slicing,” which is the process of taking a web site mockup from Photoshop and converting it to beautiful, valid, clean XHTML and CSS code.  Even his video skills have come in handy for our video department from time-to-time. Yes, it would appear he has redeemed himself. Just don't let him know that we all made the same mistake as he did when we started out. He might start to think he's normal—and that would be a waste of perfectly good bionic super DNA.

In his spare time, Oscar spends more time on the web, hangs out with his girlfriend and family, plays drums and has fun with kinetic type.