[cookiengineer]

In the German region selfhtml [0] was pretty common back in the days, and they meanwhile migrated all their content to a huge wiki for that very purpose. It starts from zero experience and goes over many aspects of web design up until the first CMS built in PHP.

Does anybody know whether something like this exists in the English language? So far I've seen only some bullshit "let's draw rectangles in canvas" like tutorials that lead to nowhere.

MDN and all are great, but expect the person reading it already knowing most of how to develop for the web. Selfhtml on the other hand was targeting an audience that even doesn't know what a text editor was, so they literally started from scratch.

For me, selfhtml taught me how to make a website when I was a child. It got me into web programming, and without it I would certainly not be the person who I am today. I hope that resources like this can be preserved for future generations in an easily consumable manner.

[0] https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/HTML/Tutorials/Einstieg

[Tomte]

SelfHTML was incredibly important.

I wouldn't be surprised if some supermajority of Germans who (a) know a bit HTML and (b) are between 35 and 50 years old learned from it.

Even as a reference I stumbled upon MDN and W3schools much later.

Thank you, Stefan Münz! You deserve a shoutout on an international forum.