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Jeffrey Zeldman says ALA is slowly changing course to reflect a maturing understanding of web standards in the marketplace.

Web standards are in our DNA and will always be a core part of our editorial focus. Standards fans, never fear. We will not abandon our post. But since late 2005, we have consciously begun steering ALA back to its earliest roots as a magazine for all people who make websites—writers, architects, strategists, researchers, and yes, even marketers and clients as well as designers and developers. This means that, along with issues that focus on new methods and subtleties of markup and layout, we will also publish issues that discuss practical and sometimes theoretical aspects of user experience design, from the implications of ubiquitous computing to keeping communities civil.

Bravo! 3 cheers for architects; 3 cheers for developers; 3 cheers for strategists.

That makes 9 cheers from people like me – an architect/developer/strategist.

What about you? Are you adjusting your web standards strategy during the browser battles of 2008? How are you maturing your business? Are your branches growing stronger, as your roots grow deeper?  Are you growing old gracefully, like the old oak tree?

Jacob Gube at Six Revisions provides an excellent roundup of 20 websites to help you learn and master CSS.  Of course, Jeffrey Zeldman’s A List Apart is at the top of the list.  Jacob mentions Eric Meyer (who tutored Zeldman) and CSS Zen Garden, but also highlights a few blogs (and talented writers/designers) that were not on my radar.

Afruj Jahan also rounded up some excellent websites to learn CSS.

Every standardista knows you have to learn CSS to follow web standards. Speaking of which … did you hear that the Facebook Designing With Web Standards Group is giving away a few free copies of Designing with Web Standards (DWWS), by Zeldman.  ( We reviewed the DWWS book here, and the article is one of our most popular links. )

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