Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing

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As a marketing consultant I personally created a couple of websites that gained a lot of traction (in their niches) for a big corporation. When I handed over the keys to the employees of said company, they stopped working on it after just of couple of weeks. They simply couldn't be bothered.

I was still hosting the websites. A year later they told me to pull the plug. I asked if I could take over the websites instead and continue to run the websites on my own. They were okay with that.

So they paid me handsomely for those websites and now they don't have any problem with me competing with their main site for some very attractive keywords. They also don't have a problem with me earning affiliate money through their own program, as well as their competitors.

Big corporations are just weird man. Online marketing is such an afterthought for many of them. And their employees simply don't care.

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I am forever grateful for the work Chris and his team did on CSS Tricks. It taught me a lot, but also brought a tone of fun and exploration to CSS…which at the time had so many inexplicable, demoralizing, quirks.

So…Chris…if you’re lurking this thread…thanks for what you made. It helped me out!

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