Doctype is a new - free - question and answer site for web designers. If you've ever struggled with a CSS problem when designing a website or email template, you'll love Doctype.
We've got a few neat features that make Doctype better than other CSS sites and mailing lists...
• Each question has browser (or email) compatibility screenshots
• All content on Doctype is editable so it's always up-to-date
• You vote on answers so the best ones rise to the top
• All CSS and HTML code is archived, along with the screenshots
Here's a great example of a question, so you can see how it works.
Once you create an account you can begin earning reputation. Your reputation score is the heart of your account on Doctype. To earn a great reputation, just write great answers to other people's questions. As people vote on your answers, you'll get points. A higher reputation means you can do more on Doctype, like editing other people's answers.
At the moment we don't know exactly how Doctype will evolve. Rest assured we'll be watching and participating every step of the way, and will work to make Doctype the single best resource for solving CSS problems on the web.
It's going to be an exciting journey. I hope you'll join us.
Comments (10)
Really like the site - we've needed something like this for a long time. I'm a big fan of StackOverFlow - are you doing any kind of reciprocity for user id's between the two sites, or are they completely different?
BTW - does that spam trap work?
Posted by Nick R | August 11, 2009 11:20 PM
Great site :)
Although I do have a suggestion: allow OpenID registration/linking. It would be great if this could be done.
Posted by Rick | August 11, 2009 11:38 PM
Very exciting and impressive! Great idea!
Just curious: did you consider looking into using StackExchange, the software which powers Stack Overflow and its sister sites, to power this site?
Posted by Avi Flax | August 12, 2009 12:00 AM
what the rss address of this blog?
Posted by clay harris | August 12, 2009 1:38 AM
@Nick R - we won't be doing any user id linking for now. At the moment our relationship with StackOverflow is good friends and not integration partners.
@Rick - OpenId is the next feature in the works. In theory it actually works on my development version of doctype, it just needs the user experience polishing.
@Avi - Yes, we enquired about StackExchange. The timing wasn't right for when we wanted to launch (we couldn't sit on this idea for a whole summer!) and we were uncertain as to whether we'd be able to extend it sufficiently to support Litmus integration
@clay - http://feeds.feedburner.com/doctype-blog
Posted by David Smalley | August 12, 2009 11:52 AM
@Nick - yeah, surprisingly we get almost zero spam since we added that. Simple 'eh
Posted by David Smalley | August 12, 2009 12:01 PM
How do I change my profile pic? I don't see the option on the edit profile page. Thanks.
Posted by Michael Wiik | August 12, 2009 1:24 PM
RoFLMAO - that spam trap is so so sweet!! Although to confess I first finished with
doctype
LoL phew!
Posted by robin | August 13, 2009 7:35 PM
Hey guys,
The site is looking great. Looking forward to contributing.
Posted by Stuart Frisby | August 14, 2009 5:00 AM
Hi,
I love your site. Looking forward to contributing.
Posted by Lee | August 18, 2009 11:04 AM