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You must remember this. It’s early-2000s zeldman.com. Enjoy a look back at 31 years of site design evolution.
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zeldman
@zeldman
Automattician. OG blogger/webdesigner. Author, “Designing With Web Standards.” Publisher, alistapart.com, A Book Apart (RIP).
- Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
- 3rd week in bed with Coronavirus. Diagnosed last week. 3rd day in a row without fever. Knock wood. But still sick, still sleeping 18+ hours/day. Still same tickle in lungs. Getting better. But long way to go. Cats help.
- I’m 25 years sober today.
- Tap, tap. Is this thing on? I’ve signed on as Creative Director of a Special Projects team at @automattic that helps showcase @WordPress at its best. I’ll share first impressions soon. Currently I'm too busy learning.
- Typing web.archive.org/save/ in front of any URL saves that content in the Wayback Machine forever. Nasty tweet? Type web.archive.org/save/ in front of the URL, and archive it forever. Hat tip: @t.
- If I don’t drink tonight, tomorrow I’ll have 30 years sober.
- The internet company as an old, ruined, brick-and-mortar storefront. An art project by Andrei Lacatusu. Hat tip: @PaulMMCooper. c/o @Behance. behance.net/gallery/526467…
- Q. How many designers does it take to change a lightbulb? A. Does it have to be a lightbulb?
- Your folks were unusual, then. Most of us moved out at 18 and made our way, struggling to pay rent, and taking pride in our cinder block shelving and found art.