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Seems like I’m even getting some love from my home state of Arkansas!  Magnolia, Cabot, Hope, and Pine Bluff so far.  Leave a comment the next time you stop by.

Y’all come back now, ya hear?

Way back in the day, circa 1998, when I started learning about web design, a man by the name of Joe Burns ran an HTML tutorial website called HTML Goodies. I hate to think about all the hours I spent studying Joe’s “So you wanna learn, huh?” This was back in the hay day of HTML 3.2. I can’t tell you how excited I was when HTML 4.0 came out… It seems as soon as I had HTML 4.0 down pat, along came the XHTML/CSS standard… and we started all over again.

Fast-forward a few years. One day I was killing some time in a bookstore and I came across a book titled Designing With Web Standards by Jeffery Zeldman, and my whole web development thinking process changed. Out with the old <table> based layouts, in with the new standards-based design. Actually, come to think of it, I bought Web Standards Solutions by Dan Cederholm at the same time as Zeldman’s DWWS.

Looking back, I guess I’ve done web development professionally since 2001. I wonder if there will be an old folks home for web developers like me someday. I can see it now, a bunch of old geezers sitting around arguing about web standards, CSS parsers, and who had the best box model hack.

I’m rambling now, on with the links!

• HTML Goodies
• Zeldman
• SimpleBits
• A List Apart
• CSS Sprites
• css Zen Garden
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
• WordPress Theme Development Checklist
• WordPress Test Data (XML file)
• Exceptional Performance
• Firebug – Web Development Evolved

I will probably add more to this list later. I used to have a ton of useful websites bookmarked. They probably ended up in the same place as my missing socks.