Want to Know About Web Design?
September 19th, 2007
Then, I’d recommend checking out About Web Design or to be more clear About.com: Web Design/HTML.
This isn’t an official review or anything. But as I’ve searched through that site countless times and always enjoy Jennifer Kyrnin’s blog posts (enough to put them on my Blogroll for awhile now) Jennifer is About.com’s Web Design / HTML Guide. I thought maybe it was time to give back a bit and let you all know one of my first stops for all things HTML.
The main reason I love the site is that not only is it clear that Jennifer is an expert, but she does a wonderful job of putting together resources from across the web all in one central look-up site. If she doesn’t have a step-by-step tutorial or complete definition/explanation of something, I guarantee she tells you at least a few places to find it!
She covers a ridiculously large array of topics from all coding, design, web promotion, web design as a business and the list goes on and on! I’m trying to rack my brain for a way to really get across the vast amount of resources there, and I think Jennifer describes her site best:
“The Web Design/HTML site is a forum for those who create Web pages. You can expect to see information about Web design, new XML and HTML standards, HTML tag libraries, Web conferences, and Web development news.”
Jennifer also does a great job of keeping the place interactive and interesting…don’t tell anyone, but pure HTML and CSS tutorials aren’t always the most exciting thing to me! She throws in a lot of quizzes and polls to mix things up a bit.
I also really appreciate her willingness to respond and help people out. She was one of the first people to ever comment on this blog way back when, and she continues to add a lot.
Alright, now this is starting to sound like I’m a bit obsessed with About and Jennifer…so I’m going to leave you with a few of my About Web Design favorites:
Web Development Horror Stories
Who Can Argue With Free Stuff - her take on over 65 free editors
If You Build It…Will They Come? Tips to Promote Your Website
If you haven’t already, check out the site and keep your eyes peeled because she’s putting out a web design book soon too!
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Well, anything you recommend should be worth a read - I have always loved your site layouts. After spending a number of years out of the coding area, I now spend too much time whenever I’ve had to adjust scripts and HTML! This should come in useful.
Well, gee! Thanks for the wonderfully kind words!
Hey, thanks for your informative post.
went and checked it out - pretty useful post - thanks!
thanks for the tip…I’ll have a look