About
How We Got Started
For the past few years, we’ve noticed hundreds of small-time blogs pop up and hit the big time through the likes of Digg, Slashdot and Reddit. While there is nothing wrong with writing viral, engaging content that invites sharing, it became hard to bear when all of the blogs in our feed readers began offering watered-down ‘content’ wrote primarily to attract a quick link or two. It quickly transitioned from hours of reading an authors well-written thesis on web design, to hours of sifting through top ten lists and one paragraph summaries of whatever was considered ‘news’ that morning. After a few months of reservation about being able to deliver the quality of material that we felt our favorite blogs had lost, we finally put our sleeves up and created this site, which we named the WebHost Checklist.
Why We’re Different
On one hand, the web is fortunate that most big-name blogs are written by great authors, experienced in their fields. The down-side is that the allure of backlinks and SEO benefits have became a priority over making each blog post better than the last. We sure aim to write clever content that may one day end up in front of thousands through social media, but we’re different as we won’t post an article until it proven itself as a distinct, thought-provoking solution to the question it tries to answer. Otherwise, it’s going to sit in the draft folder until it’s perfected.
What We’re Doing, and How You Can Help!
Beyond just trying to create great material, we’re aiming at developing an authoritative knowledge-base of everything we need to know during our day jobs: planning, developing and serving our websites. Our knowledge-base won’t be complete until we can honestly consult it ourselves, and then refer our friends and partners to specific sections with the intent of solving an issue.
It’s a big task, and you’re invited to help out by letting us know what sort of information you’d like included. We’re even hoping that some brave professionals will consider lending their hand further by writing some content, in what we hope becomes a well-respected resource on the web in the years to come.
