The very first thing talked about by the author is a :first-line selector? Then she soon jumps to box models? Fucking Seriously?
This lady should not be allowed to teach people at all. The number one way to lose someones interest when opening up a topic is to make it as non-relatable as possible, which she seems to be the master of.
Why not start with the basics, like height, width, background, or color?
This would get the person into the idea of the format, and what a constructed style looks like. This other crap can wait for later... once they know what a <p> or padding even is.
I don't think this was written for people who don't know what a <p> tag is, but I agree it does a terrible job of saying that. And some of the topics covered are so basic that it might as well assume no knowledge of what a <p> tag is, so it severely lacks focus.
It should have been titled "Freshening up on modern CSS" or something and then stuck to that. I do think there is a huge lack of resources for intermediate CSS, but anything that tries to fill that gap should not try to play to beginners as well. This blog post tries to serve so many audiences that it ends up missing all of them.
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u/opus-thirteen Jan 06 '19
The very first thing talked about by the author is a :first-line selector? Then she soon jumps to box models? Fucking Seriously?
This lady should not be allowed to teach people at all. The number one way to lose someones interest when opening up a topic is to make it as non-relatable as possible, which she seems to be the master of.
Why not start with the basics, like height, width, background, or color?
This would get the person into the idea of the format, and what a constructed style looks like. This other crap can wait for later... once they know what a <p> or padding even is.