Learn Web Design & Development

Explore resources designed to help you advance your web design and development skills.

Since 2002.

Free Mentoring Sessions: Our founder Nigel Peck, an experienced teacher and mentor, is offering free web development mentoring sessions as long as you're happy for it to be recorded and published. Get in touch if that's of interest.

Whether as a business user or a software developer. Look out for the categories to help choose resources of an appropriate level.

We're using the phrase web design here in a general and open sense. Perhaps you're working with web technologies directly, such as learning HTML or CSS. But you might equally be "designing" a strategy for web marketing or working with a content management system like WordPress.

Whatever you're up to on the web, if you're doing it yourself, there's some design involved. At least, that's the opinion we're coming from here. You might see us taking a conflicting approach elsewhere.

Do what works for you. Have fun. And don't get too caught up on terms and opinions.

Latest Articles

Classic Takes

Fancy Paragraphs with CSS

Get started with CSS by improving the look of your paragraphs.

Technology & Innovation

Complete List of Articles

Please Note: The site is currently being brought back to life (writing this late 2025). A lot more articles are on the way, mostly that were previously published elsewhere by the founder, with the list below being generally from 2002 to 2004. Check back soon for more modern takes although some of those listed are timeless. Get in touch if you'd like to see a topic covered and we'll see what we can do.

Random Content Generator

A method of displaying random content on a web page using CSS, that is both search engine friendly and accessible.

Technology & Innovation

CSS Positioning Properties

Aimed at experienced CSS developers who need a reference for the properties related to positioning in CSS 2.

Technology & Innovation

Using Relative Font Sizes

An in-depth look at how to work around bugs in popular browsers to achieve a consistent style with relative font sizes.

Technology & Innovation

XHTML 1.0 Latin-1 Character References

Complete listing of XHTML Latin-1 Character References as found in the XHTML 1.0 DTDs with an added test for each character reference.

Technology & Innovation

XHTML 1.0 Special Character References

Complete listing of XHTML Special Character References as found in the XHTML 1.0 DTDs with an added test for each character reference.

Technology & Innovation

XHTML 1.0 Symbol Character References

Complete listing of XHTML Symbol Character References as found in the XHTML 1.0 DTDs with an added test for each character reference.

Technology & Innovation

Google Dance

An in-depth look at the monthly Google Dance when Google updates its index.

Technology & Innovation

Fancy Paragraphs with CSS

Get started with CSS by improving the look of your paragraphs.

Technology & Innovation

Search Engine Crawling

Explaining what is meant by a search engine "crawling" or "spidering" your web site.

Technology & Innovation

Google Updates

An article to help you understand what a Google update is.

Technology & Innovation