Improving Your CSS Game with Martine Dowden
How do you improve your CSS skills? Carl and Richard talk to Martine Dowden about her new book, Tiny CSS Projects. The book is built around twelve progressively more complex CSS tasks - you can follow along to learn in general or pick a particular chapter for a specific skill you want to exercise. The conversation digs into thinking about the architecture of styling beyond the particular page and how those styles can be updated version-to-version without frustration. You can improve your CSS game!
Guests:
Martine Dowden
An award-winning CTO, UX / UI Designer & Developer, International Speaker, and author, Martine Dowden focuses on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, accessible, and usable. She approaches user experience from both art and science, drawing from her degrees in psychology and visual communications. She has worked as a developer, artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. In 2015, she published a children's book, “Programming Languages ABC++”. She then went on to write “Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success” which was released in June 2019 and “Architecting CSS: The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Stylesheets” in 2020. Currently, she is the CTO at Andromeda Galactic Solutions where she continues to learn, work on, and share her passion for front-end development.
Links:
- RTX 4070 Super Review https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-rtx-4070-super-review-a-1440p-powerhouse-for-599-160025855.html?guccounter=1
- Tiny CSS Projects https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tiny-CSS-Projects/Martine-Dowden/Tiny/9781633439832
- @scope https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@scope
- Tailwind CSS https://tailwindcss.com/
- Figma https://www.figma.com/
- CSS Zen Garden https://csszengarden.com/
- Sass CSS https://sass-lang.com/
- Take Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw