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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

https://planflow.dev/blog/how-to-get-better-at-css

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dyowee

dyowee

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

AstonJ

AstonJ

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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