Welcome to SilvaCoda

Learn web design from the ground up.

One guided path, one place to explore the ideas behind it, and one place to practise until they stick. Start with a short lesson — no placement test, no prior experience needed.

Start here · The Citadel

What Is Web Design?

The first lesson in the guided path. No prior knowledge assumed.

Lesson 1.1.1

Prefer to read? · Explore and discover

The Memex and the word hypertext

1 min read · Web history

Read one card
Prefer to type? · Practise deliberately

Links

Drill #07 · 10 lines

Try one drill

The Citadel is the path. The Stream and the Tutor are where ideas become yours. Your record stays in this browser across all three.

Your record starts with your first lesson. Local record · This browser

Today

What do you want to do today?

Welcome back. Pick up where you left off, or follow this week’s thread across all three surfaces.

Continue · The Citadel Module 1.1

What Is Web Design?

Start at Lesson 1.1.1 in the guided path.

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8 min lesson Start lesson

One idea. Three ways in.

Hypertext

Text that links to other text. Learn the principle, read where it came from, then type the tag that makes it work.

Learn it · The Citadel

Links and hypertext

Lesson 1.1.3 · 10 min

Open lesson
Read it · The Learning Stream

The Memex and the word hypertext

1 min read · Web history

Read card
Drill it · The Tag Typing Tutor

Links

Drill #07 · 10 clean lines

Start drill
SilvaCoda · A Medullam learning ecosystem Local record · This browser