Introduction to Making for the Web

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  • Day 2 - HTML Is a Home
  • Day 3 - Seeing Like a Browser
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  • Day 6 - Ask Better, Make a Clock
  • Day 7 - The IndieWeb
  • Day 8 - Information Architecture
  • Day 9 - Components, Layouts, and Markdown
  • Day 10 - Design Day
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July 30, 2026
Today's Slides Dev Notes Assignments Readings

Day 9: Components, Layouts, and Markdown

Today’s links

  • LLM Prompting tips
  • Astro Tutorial Follow-Along
  • Astro docs: Components
  • Astro docs: Layouts
  • Astro docs: Markdown
  • Obsidian
  • Simon Willison on using LLMs for code

Last updated: July 30, 2026

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