How To Get Better At CSS (For Developers)

The key reason why you (and likely most developers) struggle with CSS, is that you underestimate it.

Underestimating CSS leads to a strange feeling of tediousness when writing it, that makes having to deal with it a laborious and seemingly unrewarding task.

Style by style, div by div, media query by media query. Having to make endless small tweaks in what feels like an open-ended ‘design’ process with no direction at all can feel like torture to a development-oriented mind.

Not to mention a complete lack of debugging tools and methods, available for when things go wrong.

This underestimation of CSS is a subset of a problem that we developers tend to have with design in general.

In short, we don’t think it’s that important. We don’t understand or appreciate its meaning

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How do you learn and be awesome in making responsive layouts/design for different mobile device sizes?

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Start here:

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp

Then look at the various frameworks and start learning one or two :smiley: check out our CSS threads as well:

https://forum.devtalk.com/tag/css

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an oldie:

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  • CSS is used to style a webpage.
  • CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.
  • There are three ways to add CSS to an HTML file Inline, Internal and External. Adding external is the recommended way
  • CSS3 is the widely used version of CSS
  • There exist many CSS frameworks most popular ones are Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, and Bulma CSS.
  • Most of the apps/sites you see on the web have been styled with CSS. Some examples include Google products like its search engine, Gmail, Gdrive, YouTube and so on E-commerce sites like Amazon, Flipkart Social Media sites like Twitter, Insta, etc.

Read this article to know more: CSS Full Form | What is CSS? - Scaler Topics

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Although not free, I saw on twitter that this is one of the best courses out there:

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