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Webmonkey Closes its Doors

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Wired, Webmonkey is being closed by TerraLycos after 8 years of teaching practical web building skills and bucking more traditional outlets. They've written some good stuff over the years - in fact, I first understood the significance of XML after reading one of their articles."

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  1. Re:Spanish company by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's more than closely tied, actually Terra Belongs to Telefonica. Telefonica
    Telefonica is not as big as AT&T, but they are as evil :)

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  2. An Alternative to Webmonkey by snookerdoodle · · Score: 5, Informative

    FWIW, I've found "W3Schools" a decent source of Pretty Good Tutorials for most things 'web (xml, xsl, css, etc.).

    http://www.w3schools.com/

    Some stuff seems IE centric - i.e.: some examples only work with IE6 and alternatives aren't suggested.

    Mark

    1. Re:An Alternative to Webmonkey by chrisspurgeon · · Score: 5, Informative

      Just want to say that if you like/liked Webmonkey, you may also like A List Apart.

  3. For great design tutorials by JoeBaldwin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Index DOT HTML

    Index DOT CSS

    And the Complete Idiots Guide to HTML 4. All three of those resources helped me a great deal, plus looking at other sites source code to see how they were made. Some of WMs articles were OK, but it wasn't exactly overly helpful to me.

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  4. Re:Content... by IANAAC · · Score: 5, Informative

    wget is your friend (for personal use, of course :-))

  5. It's sad by w3weasel · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's sad to see em go, but I used to be a competitor of theirs until I cashed out my site (heh heh heh.

    While they produced good articles, many of their articles were poorly written, or written far above the heads of their intended audience.

    Back in the boom days, some of the WebMonkey employees got fed up with the corporate policies that valued ad placement over good content, often writing articles specifically tailored to woo the advertisers... a practice that clearly continued beyond the boom days. Those rebels started e-volt.. which still exists and is a vastly superior service.

    Slashdot is successful because they provide content that their readers want... instead of what the advertisers want. A simple thing to understand unless you are a marketing professional.

    The average marketing pro thinks that the average 'customer' doesn't know what to (think||read||buy) unless a marketeer tells them.

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  6. Re:Content... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Want an archive of it? How about....

    Internet Explorer --> Add to Favorites --> Properties of favorite --> Make available offline --> download tab --> follow links 6 pages deep (just to be safe) --> Synchronize.

    This will give you an offline archive of the entire site, as followed by links on the pages. 6 pages deep might be a little much, but you can also tell it to not go to pages off of this site (that's the default setting). What you get is a (mostly) complete archive of a great site. Now make your own CD. :-)