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Vitamin Web Resource

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:35 am
by Grim...
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/

It's new, and rather nice.

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:25 am
by feyd
A more detailed description would have been nice. I almost trashed this thread.
What is Vitamin?

The web has undoubtedly entered a new and exciting phase. Designers, developers and entrepreneurs are energized, refueled and producing some mind-blowing projects. The buzz is most definitely back! Vitamin is a brand new online magazine dedicated to that new web industry.

Vitamin will inspire you, teach you, advise you and sometimes test you with its in-depth features, audio interviews, training sessions and reviews.

It's updated every week, and it's free! So whether you just want to get dirty with the code or plan to topple Google with your next cunning web app idea, Vitamin is your new best friend.

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:19 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
Agreed, I thought Grim...'s computer was hijacked by a spambot for a second there. ;)

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:56 am
by Grim...
Er, yeah.
What Feyd said.

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:27 am
by Chris Corbyn
/breaks rules and digs dead thread up...

I've just sent them a question to ask if they want some guys from the PHP community to contribute a little content since it doesn't look to have grown massively thus far. I'd love to dig in and write a few articles and I guess some other people may do.

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:02 am
by Roja
d11wtq wrote:I've just sent them a question to ask if they want some guys from the PHP community to contribute a little content since it doesn't look to have grown massively thus far. I'd love to dig in and write a few articles and I guess some other people may do.
I did pretty much the same.. over a month ago. I offered to contribute an article, but received no response.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:18 am
by Grim...
I'll have words.

Can't promise anything, however.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:22 am
by Moocat
I caught this site a while back, it's the easiest site to navigate in a long time. I like their articles, layout designs and structure ideas. The only problem I have is that they tend to write a little strongly, bordering on arrogance.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:40 am
by Chris Corbyn
Hasn't had a lot of new content since it started. There's also no PHP stuff which is why I asked - not heard back. It was a genuine offer to help. Sounds like they're not interested in help if ~Roja never got a response neither :(

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:35 am
by Moocat
I thought their concentration was on design, not on programming, but they seemed to have branched off into AJAX and Ruby. Makes me think there's a Mac devotee behind the site construct which tends not to bode well for other choices of topics (no Java section either). To piggyback on the last comment, new articles do seem to be pretty slow, but they are regular (once a week). I'd think with 11 authors on the site though they could manage a few more than that I dare say.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:05 pm
by Roja
Moocat wrote:To piggyback on the last comment, new articles do seem to be pretty slow, but they are regular (once a week). I'd think with 11 authors on the site though they could manage a few more than that I dare say.
Well, if they would respond to emails *at all*, they definitely could at least increase their overall count.

They didn't even send a rejection email. Talk about inconsiderate.

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:02 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Yeah I've not even had a confirmation that they even received it. The reason I asked them was because I was thinking of starting something similar up but figured that since vitamin was still fresh I may as well just contribute there... not heard a peep.

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:02 pm
by jayshields
Can I just take this thread slightly off-topic (because I found webstandards.org through thinkvitamin.org) by saying why do websites go out of their way to give a standards compliancy link when they aren't valid?

http://www.webstandards.org is one.
http://www.everah.com is two I've seen just today.

Why not just take the link off and still try to keep it compliant. Personally, I think the links are cocky, and without the website being valid I think it's a bit embarrassing.

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:43 pm
by Chris Corbyn
jayshields wrote:Can I just take this thread slightly off-topic (because I found webstandards.org through thinkvitamin.org) by saying why do websites go out of their way to give a standards compliancy link when they aren't valid?

http://www.webstandards.org is one.
http://www.everah.com is two I've seen just today.

Why not just take the link off and still try to keep it compliant. Personally, I think the links are cocky, and without the website being valid I think it's a bit embarrassing.
The links aren't cocky. They are there to show your users that you've taken the care to be compliant (which brings about accessibility).

Some sites are tricky to keep compliant. Blogs for example and anything where the public can post information pretty quickly end up with some wort of hiccup.

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:51 am
by jayshields
d11wtq wrote:
jayshields wrote:Can I just take this thread slightly off-topic (because I found webstandards.org through thinkvitamin.org) by saying why do websites go out of their way to give a standards compliancy link when they aren't valid?

http://www.webstandards.org is one.
http://www.everah.com is two I've seen just today.

Why not just take the link off and still try to keep it compliant. Personally, I think the links are cocky, and without the website being valid I think it's a bit embarrassing.
The links aren't cocky. They are there to show your users that you've taken the care to be compliant (which brings about accessibility).

Some sites are tricky to keep compliant. Blogs for example and anything where the public can post information pretty quickly end up with some wort of hiccup.
Maybe cocky was a strong word. Trying not to blow it out of proportion, it's like telling someone you're going to win a race, and then losing it, or telling someone you've already won the race, but you didn't. Why not just let them find out who won the race themselves if they're so interested?

Ok, if you spent time and effort making you're website standards compliant, and you want to show it off, by all means do it, it's your website; I would do the same. Onjthe other hand, if it's hard to keep it compliant like you said for example on a blog, don't bother with the link.