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- Billing itself as “Jeffrey Zeldman Presents” (a none-too-subtle nod to “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”) this site premiered in May 1995.
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- The site always included daily text on a root-level page called coming.html, though visitors mostly ignored that page until the late 1990s.
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- This site was launched at a tilde address. The zeldman.com domain did not come ’til June of ’96.
- By the time it moved to zeldman.com, the site had already established a growing readership and significant linkage in the major portals of the day, of which only Yahoo survives.
- Zeldman.com continued to be mirrored at the tilde site for over two years, to avoid breaking personal bookmarks and web links while gently easing readers through the transition to the new domain.
- Out of habit, zeldman.com and A List Apart are hand coded in a text editor, despite the ready availability of visual editors and publishing tools, many of which are quite good.
- On 31 May, Jeffrey Zeldman Presents began its eighth year online.
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