This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
As a vague tie in with Matt’s post below. Textism presents ‘Manual’, 17 essays by web writers on the subject of ‘How To..’ in PDF format.