About FW Web Dev

Who writes FW Web Dev and what it covers.

FW Web Dev is a plain-English notebook of web-development basics for people running small sites: choosing hosting, building a decent contact form, covering the security essentials, spotting fake addresses, reading sign-up terms, and honest search basics. It favours durable fundamentals over tricks, and it sells nothing.

Who writes it

The notes are written under the pen name Glen Mercer, by someone who builds and maintains small sites and keeps the lessons in plain language. No hosting company, agency or tool is behind this site, and no link here is paid.

About this web address

This domain was used between roughly 2013 and 2016 as a web-development link directory. FW Web Dev is a new, independent site with no connection to that earlier directory or to anyone who ran it. The old link lists are gone, nothing here continues them, and no claim is made on their behalf.

About the links

Some articles link to pages in other languages and from unrelated industries, only to illustrate a point about reading a URL or a set of terms. A link is not an endorsement, and those sites are responsible for their own content.

// checked 2026-11-10