Hello Reader,

Creating websites was a hobby of mine for a long time. I started making my first sites in the late 90s with Photoshop slicing, table layouts, and image maps. I never thought writing HTML and CSS would become such an important part of my life.

After a wandering path of unrelated degrees, I ended up as a graphic designer at a small agency.

I loved it, but the pay was terrible, so I started freelancing on the side as well, mostly designing websites. After a few jobs, I figured that if they were hiring me to make the designs already, I could probably make more money by also coding those designs into actual sites as well.

Little did I know that making something for a client is a lot harder than the random hobby sites I made back in the day!

But even though it was hard, I enjoyed it even more than the design work.

Then things took a big turn.

I left my design job to become a teacher.

While the school’s focus was print design, once they found out I had web experience, I quickly became the go-to web teacher.

And that’s when I realized that while I could build a website, I didn’t really know what I was doing.

I had figured out a few patterns I could repeat to create the layouts I was designing, and I had enough experience to recognize the common pitfalls, but teaching was a completely different beast. I had to explain why things worked, and I had no idea.

So I started researching, reading, and watching any video I could get my hands on (there were a lot fewer back then), spending most of my evenings trying to find ways to explain things to my students.

And somewhere in all that, something shifted. While I learned about a ton of CSS features that I hadn’t even been aware of, the most important part was that I started to understand how CSS works.

Suddenly, the code I wrote just worked. Not because I memorized more stuff and knew more properties, but because I was finally working with the browser instead of against it. When I ran into a problem, I could figure it out without even needing Google because I understood what the browser was trying to do and where my instructions conflicted with it.

It honestly felt like I suddenly had a cheat code.

That’s what I want for you, which is why I created CSS Demystified. I wanted to give people the same shift I experienced, one that turned CSS from a source of frustration into something I enjoy, without you having to spend the years it took me for things to start to click.

As you might know, I shut down CSS Demystified a few months ago. That's because I've completely recreated the course from the ground up, including building a custom platform, so I didn't have to make any compromises due to the limitations of 3rd-party tools.

The new version is *finally* ready after more than a year's work. I’ll have a lot more details about the course for you tomorrow. For now, I’ll leave you with this, from someone who’s been through the original version of the course:

Cheers,
Kevin

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