On Web Development II
Published on Nov 6, 2025, filed under books, development, html, css, management. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon.)
EPUB and PDF, with updates, at Leanpub (other sellers).
After another decade, this ebook collects 180 select articles from meiert.com, exploring everything there is to 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 writings about engineering management. Enjoy!
| Format and price | Ebook (EPUB and PDF), $19.99 |
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| Kindle ebook (free app for Android and iOS), $19.99 | |
| Length | 606 pages (PDF) |
| Sellers | Amazon |
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| Latest version | 1.1.2 (bought the book, but reading an old version? contact me, maybe I can help) |
In the Book’s Own Words
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 an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead and manager at various companies (e.g., Google); I’m an active web and tool developer (code optimization, digital defense), a contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and a book author (O’Reilly, Frontend Dogma). Stay in touch.