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You can now follow the complete thread for Designing With Web Standards using the DWWS tag, which now includes a book review, a brief history of the DWWS group on Facebook, and some background on the original Blue Beanie Day.

While we’re on the topic of Zeldman (and DWWS) you should participate in (yes, if you are a web designer, you should take the survey too!) the 2008 Survey of People Who Make Websites.

Tags: blue beanie, community, CSS, DWWS, HTML, learning, tutorial, Web Standards, XHTML, zeldman

Quick update. The DWWS group on Facebook is now over 1100 members — in less than 2 weeks. Members are from more than 45 different countries. Everyone is talking about Designing With Web Standards.

Update, 11-Apr-2008 – the  DWWS group  is now over 3000 members.

Update, 28-July-2008 — the DWWS group now has over 3600 members.

Tags: book, community, CSS, DWWS, facebook, group, HTML, mentor, mentoring, social network, tutor, tutoring, Web Standards, XHTML, zeldman

Last Saturday, I started a Designing With Web Standards group on Facebook. You might be familiar with the book, by Jeffrey Zeldman, Designing With Web Standards. I’m happy to report that (as of this writing) over 600 members have joined in the first week, from all over the world.

Members are from the following countries, or regions: Australia, Belgium, Belize, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Venezuela, etc.

Please join us as we are talk about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ECMA-script web standards in the Facebook discussion forum.

Update, 28-July-2008 — You can read related articles by following the DWWS tag.

Tags: book, community, CSS, DWWS, facebook, HTML, social network, Web Standards, XHTML, zeldman

Back in July, I began an article on How to Manage Your Blogroll. Managing your blogrolls and managing your RSS-feeds is really all about “staying in touch” with wonderful, intelligent, funny or witty people. Be careful who you delete. Be careful who you add. It’s all about reputation. It’s about the global conversation, and taking a ride on the ClueTrain. It’s all about loving and respecting people. It’s all about the cycles of life, your circle of concern, and your circles of influence. It’s all about listening more than you talk.

God gave us two ears and one mouth, to remind us to listen more than we talk. My blog roll is full of links to many people that I have never met-in-person. I may disagree with some of the things they write, but I love and respect them all.

So, I was talking about various rules you might use — to know when to delete blogs from your list. Is there a book on blogroll refactoring? How do you know when to delete a link from your blogroll?

Tags: blogging, blogroll, blogs, community, conversation, listening, refactoring