When I was 16 or 17, I remember smuggling books into class and reading them under the desk in boring classes: usually the ones I was ‘forced’ into doing because my school didn’t have enough people who wanted to do final-year drama as a subject to justify a drama class, so the two of us got to do ‘Art Design’ instead. We didn’t actually get put in a design class, either, just stuck in the back of Miss Boyd’s print-making room and left to our own devices, which probably explains how I ended up getting a C in design.

Anyway. One of the books I remember reading in such a clandestine fashion was Molly Holzschlag’s Guide to Designing with Stylesheets, Tables, and Frames, which must have been very new out then, and was really my introduction to the crazy new world of web design. Back then, we didn’t even have an internet connection at home, but that didn’t stop me fantasising about, and endlessly redesigning, my own personal web page.