@bw Very cool!

@bw Congrats, any efforts to lighten the Web and return it to the people are worthwhile.

I noticed that the request to https://htmlforpeople.com/assets/js/hero.js is currently serving a redirect loop but thankfully it doesn't seem to affect the site functionality.

@bw yay, so happy for your launch!

@bw

This looks really good! I’ll take a deeper look later and will probably start recommending it to people. :D

@bw I am going to use this to update my skills and make abominations, thank you so much <3

@bw I look forward to having a read. Thanks for doing this!

@bw Congrats to the launch! 🚀 Such a wonderful contribution! I’ve added it to the HTML section here:
https://birming.com/blog-inspiration/

@bw When a client asks me to build a website that they can maintain, I use basic HTML. IMHO It’s easier to teach them HTML than Wordpress or other CMSs. Years later their sites are still online, updated, and I haven’t heard any complaints. Your book is likely to make my job even easier! 💻️ 👍️ 😁

@bw The link doesn't seem to work for me, at least with Firefox.

@bw fwiw I’m getting a couple of different “too many redirects” warnings on iOS Safari and a “too many HTTP redirects” in Firefox & Firefox Focus.

I tried your link as well as typing it in directly. Maybe you’re too popular? I can’t wait to check it out!

@bw The page won’t load for me… I’m getting a too many redirects error :(

@bw Hi, I just tried to take a look at this and it seems like the server is in an infinite loop of redirects to the same URL.

(Tested with a couple of different browsers as well as curl, so I don't think it's browser-specific.)

@bw This seems like just what we need right now!

Is there a download of it available somewhere?

@bw Hell yes

@bw super cool! looks like there might be an overflow declaration missing on the pre tags

@bw congrats!

@bw looks cool! Buttons are stacking oddly on my phone

@bw

"HTML for People is OUT NOW! ...
And it’s free for all. 🚀"

This is super! So many times I needed a reference like this to share.

And you did one on CSS?

Awesome.

@bw @Xenograg this is so cool! Thank you

@bw oh this is fucking amazing. when I have money, I will be donating. This is a public service. https://htmlforpeople.com/zero-to-internet-your-first-website/

@bw Nice! I recently committed to (eventually) coding my own website by hand, and this will be an invaluable resource.

@bw this is so cool wtf. how'd you get this idea

@bw wow the zero to internet step is just awesome. Plain text ftw!

@bw I should buy this book because I was a designer for a short time in 2006 and the internet was still wonky at the time but had improved a lot since then.

@bw Love this, and appreciate you using Simple.css too. This is exactly the kinda use case it was designed for. ❤️

@bw this is perfect, and so easy to recommend. i like HTML and i want people i like to also like HTML

@bw this is super great. Good work.

@bw Congratulations!

@bw That's an excellent introduction to building websites - nice work!

@bw that looks interesting thanks for creating, maybe i get a itch and take a look if it helps refreshing my rusty knowledge, especially for newer features.

@bw Just going through the book now, should pick this kind of thing back up anyway. Oh, you put tags on their own lines? That's cool, I've usually seen them on the same line as the content, but that does seem more organized to put them on their own line.

@bw What an absolutely lovely ressource! 🏆 Can’t wait to dig in. And teach my son enough English so he can use this to learn HTML 😄

⚠️ Heads up: In dark mode, the aside boxes with the robot mascot are currently showing white text on a white background.

@bw@social.lol the artstyle is so adorable

@bw It’s seldom that I will do every possible interaction with one single toot: boost, favourite, comment, AND bookmark, but here we are.

@bw Finally something that might explain Tables better to me.

@bw this is awesome, thank you!

@bw And the image are described! That's really nice to know what output we should be expecting.

@bw This looks really cool! I'll be saving this for later.

However, I didn't know these boxes were supposed to have text in them until I highlighted it. Using Firefox 115 on Linux

@bw Congrats and thanks! It sounds awesome. I do like so much better simple html pages!!
Best wishes

@bw hey, as an intermediate beginner I checked your website and it's a very resourceful website, thank you so much!

If i could make a little request, I think it would be useful to have a direct link to the demo website pinned somewhere in the menu, because I want to reference some stuff from there but I find it hard to dwell on the sections before finding it

@bw omg sounds amazing. thanks!!!

@bw I am this books target audience. Thank you!

@bw Great job! A few things I didn't know and updated my knowledge from 15 years ago. You should consider writing a chapter about static page generators. Then blogging is simpler and the rss generates by itself. :-) although I don't find markdown perfect because it doesn't support <details> tag....

@bw Very cool! Will share any chance I get!

@bw

*GASP*

You have committed the ultimate sin!

@bw just quickly skimmed, but it looks awesome! Also am a huge water.css (and classless CSS in general) fan. It makes things so easy!

@bw This looks so good. And clearly a labor of love. Bless you!

@bw Holy crap, this is *incredibly* well-written. Thank you so much for doing this! Long live the indie web! 💙

@bw
This is great work!

One thing I noticed, I'm intermittently getting a page without CSS. I checked the console and got:
Failed to load resource: net:: ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR

I refresh and it's fine 🤷🏼‍♂️

Keep up the good work :D

@bw Had a brief look, it's wonderful :)

Also, I see what you did with the time on the phone in that picture ;)

This is wonderful @bw 💜💜💜

Holy quadrilogy of favourite, boost, bookmark, reply.

Just great. Thank you for making it!

@bw this is amazing!

@bw Thank you. I have a clean-looking website that’s hosted on Tumblr, but I’d like to take it off there and do it myself. This could be the impetus I need.

@bw

Thank you, what a fine thing to do.
Practical, subversive, inclusive.

I hope it will not sound patronising if I say it would be a better world if every other professed Christian lived their faith in the same spirit.

@bw love this! the design of it makes it feel very welcoming and friendly and not scary to beginners. will have to look through the whole thing later

@bw this is really really nice! And I would love to do this with kids. Is there a way this could be translated?

@bw wow i feel like it’s 1994 again.

@bw I have to assume the <blink> tag has now been deprecated? Good job on the book. Got yourself a new follower.

@bw TIL classless CSS frameworks. This is great!

@bw Those wobbly borders! 😍

@bw neocities... This name reminds me so about geocities
nostalgia 😄

@bw Brilliant! I learnt how to write HTML when I wanted to code in lockdown, and if I had something like this, it would have been so much easier.

@bw Thanks, mostly very cool work, and a good learning resource.

I found a few bad practices promoted by this tutorial, though. The most relevant are using Visual Studio Code, and the second embedding YouTube videos directly.

Both can easily be fixed, the first by pointing people to https://vscodium.com/ instead and the latter by showing how to embed uploaded video files instead of YouTube iframes.

@bw
HTML 1.0 was the original HTML for People.

@bw this is super neat and useful even to people who know how to “code” but haven’t done webhosting before.

I will say though, as someone who interacts with new programmers at my university (undergrad) frequently, I might add that there are a few hidden assumptions in some of the first tutorials. It assumes the reader understands what file extensions are, or knows how how to navigate/understand folders. Should index.html be next to or outside the folder? You haven’t specified :c

@bw Hi! Looks like a very cool and educational book.

Reading it with 'my child might want to do this' in mind, I am missing one thing, though. While her dad and I work mainly with linux, her computer is a chromebook (because that's what they use in school as well, we got it during the covid school closures). I think many young people these days have chromebooks or similar. Would it be worth mentioning how to proceed on those?

@bw This is so lovely! It reminds me of all the websites back in the early 00s that taught me how to build websites (no javascript, just step by step HTML).

Love this so much! <3

@bw This is the best introduction to HTML I've ever seen! Great work :)

VS Code: A fancier Notepad™

@bw

I will only click on the link if it has image maps, does it have image maps?

@bw I was telling my partner the other day how I wanted to start doing lessons on how to write simple websites not in order to be a developer, but in the way a diy woodworking workshop teaches w/w as a hobby.

Now I may have found a book for my class.

@bw Did you just take my idea from literally 14 hours ago and just make it a reality? That's awesome!

Jokes aside, this obviously took longer than 14 hours to make. But dude, this is exactly the approach I would've taken and I'm *so* glad you did it!

Now, all we need to do is get it onto mainstream social media. 🚀

@bw hey, thanks :)

@bw Great looking guide!

@bw
Is there any chance for localization in other languages?

@bw that's mighty!

@bw Oh this is BRILLIANT!

@bw This is great. I haven't done front end for such a long time, and just flicked through this - so much new stuff that you have covered in such a simple book. Thank you!

@bw this seems a lot easier to read and understand than most other guides i’ve seen. i wish i had a resource like this when i was starting to code websites!

@bw looks solid! very nice!

@bw Thank you

@bw This is incredibly cool. I'm playing around with it to update my knowledge, and I'm sharing it widely. I've urged my communities to please set up a backup website, just in case it ever turns out that social media is less than stable.

@bw deadset legend

@bw this is wonderful, thank you for making it

@bw
Perhaps members of the #selfhtml bubble would like to and can help support this.

@bw
I've posted just now in the #selfhtml forum with the request for support for your project especially with localization.
Because ultimately this is exactly the same objective that your project is aiming for. https://wiki.selfhtml.org/

https://forum.selfhtml.org/

@bw This is so great thankyou for this, I've shared it around because it is a great resource for newbies! I noticed though that mobile view stretches on pages with video so you might have to tweak the video embeds to be more responsive, but great otherwise :)

@bw awesome!

@bw Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your work!

Taking back control over our tech may be the trend of the decade

@bw omg its not react? thank you

@bw Reminds me of the most creative era of website building! 👍👍👍👍🙂🎉

@bw juicy and cool

@bw
Teach people only HTML. A basic HTML. Don't teach them CSS or JS. Encourage them to have a simple website like http://motherfuckingwebsite.com that is how a website should be.

@bw so sick!! :prami:

@bw well done! I teach computer science to humanities students and as much as I can tell, this is really accessible for them. In particular, I was curious how you introduce files, hosting and content reuse, and you've done a great job to keep all this simple.

@bw right on! Build to last, I have one done in 1994 that is still standing https://mcli.cogdogblog.com/tut/