I’m thinking about starting another website. The sole purpose would be as a learning tool to others. CSS and HTML is pretty easy to learn but can be a little overwhelming at first. I sort of remember starting out and getting frustrated and reverting back to table based layouts several times. This site wouldn’t be like Chris Coyier’s CSS-tricks it’d be more basic, a starting point if you will.

My fears are this:

1. too much work, not enough time - will people use it and benefit from it or will I be spending several hours a week and no one uses it

2. how much is too much - do I really want to talk about basic html tags, I mean do I really have to start at the beginning and talk about how to set up an html document? Do I assume everyone that would read it knows what a paragraph tag looks like, or the difference between ordered an unordered lists?

3. Would this be like training someone to take my job? I understand that only people that want to make websites will try to learn how to make websites, and they’ll do it with or without my help, but would I be assisting my future competition? One thing I’ve noticed about the web industry is that most people are willing to help. There are some more experienced guys running around that have seemed to have become pretty cocky and they like to talk down to a lot of people, but overall it’s a pretty friendly community from what I experienced.

I don’t know, if anyone has any thoughts on the subject, let me know.

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I subscribe to decent amount of RSS feeds. I also have a problem of where I have to check them whenever a new post has come in. I keep a folder on my bookmark bar in safari, so whenever a new feed comes in I get a number up there which makes me check it, I don’t have a choice, I have to. You’ll notice a couple missing, the main one being A List Apart. It was causing problems for a while, everyday it would say there was a new post, but it was just a duplicate of the previous one. I just need to bookmark it again. You’ll also notice that I don’t have ReadWriteWeb, they post too often so I would find myself getting sidetracked from work a lot, so I removed them as well. I also don’t have AuthenticJobs in there, but I do on my home computer. Even though I’m not looking for a job, I like to see what is out there, and I don’t think it would be appropriate on my work computer.

Some feeds post stuff several times a day, some feeds post stuff once a week, or once a month, or sometimes longer. That’s fine with me, those posts once every couple of months usually say something good.

I forget what a lot of these websites look like because I just look at the feed, and the links below are to the feeds. I’m not sure what that would do if you’re on IE6, but whatever, you shouldn’t be on IE6.

So, here are the feeds

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This seems to be pretty cool if you’re into mobile blogging.

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