drdrang,
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I want to clean up the internals of my website in the coming year, but I am woefully out of date on current HTML and CSS. What books would be the best to learn from? Note: I want it to remain static and don’t want to use Hugo or similar tools. The fun for me is in doing it myself.

medievalist,
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@drdrang @Meyerweb wrote the best CSS book. Complicated udeas clearly explained https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/css-the-definitive/9781098117603/

tantramar,
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@medievalist I second this recommendation — I’ve bought every edition. @drdrang @Meyerweb

bsteph,
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@drdrang for more modern CSS concepts I've found https://ishadeed.com/articles useful lately.

yatil,
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@drdrang HTML-wise not that much has changed. Sure, add some more landmarks (<main>, <nav>, <header>, <footer> elements) to the page, maybe wrap your articles in… <article> elements. But good static HTML stays pretty good.

Here’s a link to tutorials I was allowed to help write a few years ago, mainly with accessibility in mind, but really best practices: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/page-structure/

drdrang,
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@yatil I know much of HTML is same as it ever was, but I stopped learning in the XHTML days. Thanks for the link!

yatil,
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@drdrang HTML5 is a lot of fun, so many new elements 😃 Some are even useful! 😅

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