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cassidoo/HTML-CSS-Tutorial
Tutorial for HTML and CSS
A hand-written HTML/CSS tutorial by Cassidy Williams, structured as a progressive walkthrough from basic tag structure through CSS layout and linking external stylesheets. Targets complete beginners — people who have never opened a code editor. The writing voice is casual and funny, which makes it more approachable than W3Schools but also means it occasionally sacrifices precision for charm.
The tutorial is self-contained: you clone it and open HTML files locally, no server setup, no npm install, no toolchain. The progression is well-ordered — inline styles before CSS, structure before layout — which mirrors how someone actually learns to think about the web. The numbered folder structure forces readers to work through examples in sequence rather than jumping around. The cooking.html exercise in section 4 is a good capstone that ties metadata, images, and layout together.
Last meaningful update appears to be several years ago — it still teaches the deprecated `border` attribute on tables and `<font>`-style inline color on paragraphs as the 'wrong way' without acknowledging that even the 'right way' shown (no Flexbox, no Grid, float-based layout) is also outdated. There is no CSS Flexbox or Grid coverage at all, which means anyone finishing this tutorial will immediately hit a wall trying to build anything that looks like a real page. The tutorial stops before JavaScript, responsive design, or the browser devtools — so it gets you to 'I can make a static page' but not 'I can build a website'. The README and folder files diverge slightly in places, suggesting the prose was updated but the example files were not always kept in sync.