Postscript
March 21st, 2009
Postscript
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Many thanks to the terrific Amber Rhea for her work on CSS Insider. You can continue to find Amber on our Download Squad blog. And this site will remain available for reference and searching. Thanks to the readers who commented on the retirement of CSS Insider, and thanks to everyone who visited this blog over the last couple of years!
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It’s been real
Well, folks, today officially marks the final day of CSS Insider. I’ve had a lot of fun blogging here for the past 7 months, and hopefully my posts have been helpful and informative to you as well. Would I say CSS Insider has changed my life? Well… I tend to shy away from hyperbole; but one fact worth noting is that if it weren’t for my blogging here, I wouldn’t have met and interviewed Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Jason Santa Maria.If you are so heartbroken at the thought of this blog going dark because you just can’t get enough of Amber Rhea, worry not! You can find me at the Georgia Podcast Network, where I pontificate about a variety of topics; and my personal blog, Being Amber Rhea. And you might just catch me somewhere else ’round the Weblogs, Inc. network, as well.
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Browser windfall
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