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While I was in college a good friend of mine put me onto a website called webmonkey.com to begin learning about web design and development. I was rather a novice to web design and the site had a lot to offer beginners as well the skilled. I used it often but then it went dormant one day and no more new content appeared one the site and for all practical purposes died but the site it’s content remained online. Sometimes I’d find it popping up in search results when I’d google for a tutorial or look for code but as time marched on the tutorials became more and more outdated as new web standards became commonplace and Web 2.0 revamped much of how the web is structured. The webmonkey was all but dead… hanging on by a thread of existence… motionless floating in the space of the internet.

Then today I picked up the latest issue of Wired magazine only to find an advertisement stating that the webmonkey is back! It appears that the site which was once driven by webdevelopers who may have been paid for their contributions is now seemingly an open-source site where you, the reader-user and designer-developer, can post your own articles, tips and tricks about designing and developing for the web. The ad says the newly remodeled site has tutorials, beginner’s guides, cheat sheets, daily news, tips and tricks for designers and developers.

So… if you’ve been feeling lost without your webmonkey or you’ve never been introduced… you’re in luck because he is indeed alive and back with his trusty orange wrench ready to wreak havoc, um I mean… teach you a thing or two about designing and developing your own content for the web and this time around allowing you to share your webmonkeying expertise with the rest of us!