The two most common questions I am asked about this web site are "How did you learn this stuff?" and "Why are you posting it on the web?" To answer at least one of those questions I here now present a list of credits to the websites and books that helped me learn this stuff.

As for the WHY. I don't know. Gives me something to do.

How?

HTML Goodies ( http://htmlgoodies.com/ ) :: This site has changed a lot since I first used it to learn the basics of HTML and I haven't looked at it for quite some time, but this is were it all started. Professor Joe Burns had set up a ten step tutorial on how to write HTML code and create a page that made sense. It was very easy to follow and his style of writing made it easy to understand. And when I was ready it offered help in learning more complicated bits of coding, such as javascript.

A List Apart ( http://www.alistapart.com/ ) :: Always very stylish, this site has been meant for people who build websites. Very infomative even if a bit over my head most of the time. It is usually presented in a monthly web-zine type format. Always good to go back and see what is new there. Source of many great ideas, many stolen straight from the sites source code.

Zeldman.com ( http://www.zeldman.com/ ) :: Writer for A List Apart, Jeffery Zeldman maintains his site a sort of mix of blog and web design forum. At least that is what I remember it as. Always had great style and showed me a lot of neat tricks.

Glassdog ( http://www.glassdog.com/ ) :: This site has gone through multiple changes and overhauls and rethinks since I first happened across it years ago. The author, Lance Arthur was a web designer for some San Francisco company and had a lot of cool ideas that he incorporated into his site; and that I susequently peaked at in his source code, figured out and used on my own site. (And still use. I'm so un-original.)

Lance Arthur ( http://lancearthur.com/ ) :: Lance's other personal site. He has also alway had a very entertaining writing style that I have usually enjoyed reading.

Glen Murphy ( http://glenmurphy.com/ ) :: Another web designer with a lot of time on his hands and more talent than he knows what to do with. Originally stumbled upon his Sexographic site, which was nothing more than a design experiment. It had a lot of cool ideas that I could easily desipher and use. There was also a link to his bodytag.org site which was simply a storehouse for his spare web projects and ideas.

I Am Bald ( http://milov.nl/iambald/ ) :: Similar to bodytag.org this site is a list of little web tricks that I found interesting and useful. Most of the stuff is easy to figure out.

Head Space ( http://www.head-space.org/ ) :: Don't know what they do; don't care either. I just liked their use of random photos on their main page and was the insperation for the current random picture code on my front page.

Dynamic Drive ( http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ ) :: These next two sites are simply script warehouses. If yu are looking for a calendar or clock to display on your page, you can find them here. In fact if you look at the source code for this page you will find dynamic drive code.

The Javascript Source ( http://javascript.internet.com/ ) :: Another good script warehouse site that I often used.