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Weekly newsletter, where I talk about tangentially-related front-end development topics and share what I've been up to in the last week, plus any cool/fun/interesting/useful links I come across as well.
Hello Reader, Sometimes you run into a CSS problem, and you do everything right, but still can't figure out what is going on. You don’t pile on Band-Aids. You stop and think about why it’s happening. You narrow it down to a specific question. You search for an answer. And you get nothing. This happened to one of my students a while back. They added padding to an element, and that padding covered the text of the paragraph above it. They played around with it and tried a few different things....
Hello Reader, Yesterday I told you about the mindset shift that changed everything for me, and how I started working with the browser instead of against it. I’ve spent a long time figuring out how to pass that same shift on to others, and that’s why I created CSS Demystified, which is now open for enrollment. Before I get into the details, I want to tell you why I built it the way I did. I spent five years teaching in a classroom before I moved to online education full-time. And the thing...
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...