Disjecta membra

I like how this piece below is presented - straight forward and to the point Rather than showing how to do the basics in a do-it all program like Dreamweaver, they start you right off with the basics.

About Disjecta membra
What follows are notes for a tutorial on designing web pages. From scratch, that is, rather than by using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver. The notes are oriented toward designing a simple academic home page using HTML and CSS. They’re sketchy in places because I expected to fill in details in presentation. But they may be useful as a supplement to more standard forms of documentation. On this page they are in reverse chronological order. To read them from first to last, go to the Talking about design categories page.

LinkJuly 11, 2006 in Web/Tech
Writing legible code
Pounding out code that does what you want, more or less, is one thing. Writing clean, legible code is another. Legible code has a clear structure. It is easy (relatively speaking) to revise. Its pieces can be readily reused in other contexts. It saves labor and thought…. Source: tlonuqbar.typepad.com