.. I bow to thee
It seems like so long ago already when I started to get into building web sites. Being the perfectionist that I am I wanted to do things right from the start. It was just a handful years ago that I really started building web sites. Although ky very first atempts must date back to 1995 or there abouts. I remember being proud of it and giving a colleague the url and him asking where the images were. Looking at the html I soon discovered they were still linking to my C-drive!
Well, years passed and I wasn't really active on the Net, other than trying to find stuff through AltaVista. Than five or six years ago I became more interested in web design and development again.
Being ambitious and working at Nike at that time "I wanted to do the right thing": and decided to just do it. I looked around for information and struck on sites like A List Apart and great inspring people like Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman. Through them and many other web standard evangelistas and web sites I learned the difficult trade of developing web standard compliant web sites.
And I am still learning today.
And I will still be learning tomorrow.
And I will probably still be learning for the rest of my life.
And I just love that
Back to the King
But do not stray too far from the path. Business Week has come up with a great article about Jeffrey Zeldman proclaiming him the King of Web Standards and rightfully so.
This is a must read and bookmark it and use it in the struggle to convince people of the need for web standards and the use of these.
I remember struggling the same way when I first started to design web pages as a hobby. It took me forever to figure out how to get images working. It just makes you wonder, how did the first web developers do it?!
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