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title: "A list of useful resources for learning web dev"

description: "Pruning down a list I found elsewhere so when I give resources in future I can at least vouch a little bit"

date: "2026-03-07"

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tags: []
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If you're here to read interesting thoughts from me then you'll want to go check another post.

This one is just a list of links with a short description so I can give out this link to people who want some basic web development guides in the future.
No guarantees that all the links will jive with you but I've tried to make sure they aren't useless.

For now this list is mostly focused on HTML and CSS with Javascript, HTTP and various tooling like SSGs, Bundlers and Frameworks mostly kept out.
I may add resources focused on Javascript and SSGs here in future but for now this'll do.

The list that I pruned this list out from initially can be found [here](https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49)

- [HTML Dog](https://www.htmldog.com/): Seems to do a good job not throwing things at you too quickly. Although I'd say its missing important information about flexbox and grid in addition to making some omissions and mistakes.
- [HTML for People](https://htmlforpeople.com/): Goes slower than HTML Dog, sticks to just HTML (CSS and Javascript learning needs to happen elsewhere) and is a bit more hand holdy overall
- [Interneting is Hard](https://internetingishard.netlify.app/): Like *HTML for People* but goes over CSS as well
- [Mozilla's Web Docs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web): Shorter and less Hand holdy than the other resources listed so far, MDN is also a good reference to find information on specific bits of HTML, CSS and JS so even if the guide doesn't prove appropriate for you I advise saving the site regardless.

That said Flexbox and Grid can be notably tricky so here's some links which focus on just those.

- [CSS Grid Garden](http://cssgridgarden.com/)
- [CSS Flexbox Froggy](https://flexboxfroggy.com/)
- [An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid by Josh W Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-grid/#introduction)