[Theforum] [Fwd: [thalist] Any good web developer/programmer Portals out there?]

[Erika Meyer]

spinhead wrote:

>Not sure how related this is, but in the December issue of WebTechniques,
>Molly used alistapart as her example of a standards compliant well validated
>x-browser site. Someone oughta tell her about evolt.org . . .

ALA is pretty different than Evolt, in terms of pushing the 
boundaries of structural markup + CSS... though it would be nice to 
see Evolt get a bit more credit for it's particular approach.  (I 
find the accesskey particularly enchanting.)

http://www.evolt.org/article/Inside_the_evolt_org_Rebuild_The_HTML_and_CSS/20/5816/index.html

There's another factor to it which is the art/design following 
Zeldman has.  Also, certain web personalities hang out at the same 
conferences.  They do the mutual linking thing, which we could do as 
well...

There have been some vehement objections to "link-whoring" in the 
past...  (objections I don't agree with, but objections nonetheless. 
Are there still objections?)

I think it would be neat-o if Evolt reps did some of the conference 
circuit one day.  We could do it if we wanted to.  We could promote 
Evolt and schmooze simultaneously.

The mutual flow of love would lead naturally to mutual flow of links.

Erika

>So what I was thinking was that we probably need a real strategy re:
>who/what are we trying to attract? Can't really discuss tactics until we
>know the strategy. If news etc. will attract the right interest, it's the
>right thing. Will writing letters to Molly and getting mentioned in trade
>journals bring in the traffic/people we're seeking?
>
>spinhead


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