Now Available: “On Web Development II”!
Published on Nov 6, 2025, filed under books, development, html, css, management. (Share this on Mastodon or Bluesky?)
EPUB and PDF, with updates, at Leanpub (other options).
After another decade, this ebook brings together 180 select articles from meiert.com, exploring everything we love in web development. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the material covers HTML and CSS; but the book also comes with a few new chapters, including some writings about engineering management. Enjoy!
| Format and price | Ebook (EPUB and PDF), $19.99 |
|---|---|
| Kindle ebook (free app for Android and iOS), $19.99 | |
| Preview | Select chapters (PDF, 711Â KB) |
| Length | 606 pages (PDF) |
| Sellers | Amazon |
| Kobo | |
| Leanpub | |
| Gumroad | |
| Latest version | 1.0.0 |
Description
On Web Development II brings together 180 articles from a veteran developer who has been coding almost every day for more than 25 years. Jens Oliver Meiert (meiert.com) distills another decade of experience—spanning projects from start-ups to global tech companies—into insights on engineering practices and principles, HTML and CSS, processes and management.
Whether you’re refining your craft or leading technical teams, this collection offers proven as well as thought-provoking perspectives on effective web development. Unfiltered, opinionated, yet rooted in real-world practice.
The outline:
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- On Web Development
- On Web Development in General
- On Principles
- On Quality
- On the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- On Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- On Frameworks
- On Maintenance and Maintainability
- On This and That
- On Processes
- On Engineering Management
- Feedback
- About the Author
- About On Web Development II
Whether you're a web developer or engineering manager, get your copy of On Web Development II!
About Me
I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a web developer, manager, and author. I’ve been working as a technical lead and engineering manager for companies you’ve never heard of and companies you use every day, I’m an occasional contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.
I love trying things, not only in web development and engineering management, but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (I value you being critical, interpreting charitably, and giving feedback.)