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Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead?

Posted by Hemos on from the zombie-monkeys-with-straight-edge-razors dept.

Mirkon writes "Back in mid-February, the news was broken that Webmonkey, one of the web's most prominent web development tutorial and reference resources, was "shut down," in that no new content would be delivered. A little over four months later - though Wired News (another child of Webmonkey's parent company, Terra Lycos) says nothing, and the Webmonkey Blog (hosted on Tripod, another Terra Lycos subsidiary) hasn't seen an update since January - the Webmonkey home page boldly declares: "We're totally back! Webmonkey is alive and kicking, serving up new articles all hot-n-fresh like a stack of banana pancakes. With syrup." Is this the end of the end for Webmonkey?"

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  1. WYSIWYG, why webmonkey? by millahtime · · Score: 2, Informative

    with all the wysiwyg editors what is the reason for the average joe to know html. If you are more advanced then that you prolly have a minilibrary of book on it. So, why webmonkey??? I havn't used it in years.

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    1. Re:WYSIWYG, why webmonkey? by jswhiting · · Score: 2, Informative

      well, why don't you take a look at what the site offers... theres a lot more than HTML tutorials on there. notice the categories "programming" and "backend"? "multimedia"? if it was only html, it wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is. its a really great resource that is extremely helpful to beginners in lots of different domains of web design & development.

  2. Slightly misleading by vijaya_chandra · · Score: 1, Informative

    Unix Reference Guide

    Unless you have a Unix machine sitting on your desktop, you're probably accessing it through telnet or a command-line shell.

    I have had shamelessly lived on others' *nix boxes using X-Win32 and Cygwin/X for a long time

    (Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)

  3. A List Apart by Enygma42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take a look at A List Apart, they're a bit into CSS but that's a Good Thing really.

    I don't need no steenkin' webmonkey.

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  4. Re:Relevance? by LabRat007 · · Score: 3, Informative

    So that begs the question - what online resources are you using? I'm fond of w3schools myself.

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  5. Copyright notice dates by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    and forgot to update the copyright dates everywhere?

    The year in a copyright notice tells when a work was first published. If each individual article is a separate work, then of course some works might have been first published in 2003.

  6. Re:Relevance? by DaveKAO · · Score: 3, Informative

    Honestly, I use google 75% of the time. I also use w3schools, and frequent alistapart, Microsoft,
    Builder.com, and my favorite devX.