I don't think their site makes clear why using Smalltalk to teach web development solves any problems. The PDF halfway through their tutorial series on Smallta

I don't think their site makes clear why using Smalltalk to teach web development solves any problems. The PDF halfway through their tutorial series on Smalltalk explains Seaside as a "framework" that addresses some of what I'd consider smaller annoyances in development (One example they offer is the ability to add <em> tags to every occurrence of specific words in a file. Such tools might be of use to a small audience, but I'm not sure anyone would want to learn web coding in such a roundabout way. Open Wordpad, go to W3Schools and practice an (X)HTML tutorial. Maybe consider Seaside once you've practiced the basics.