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CSS is not as traditional an experience but is so fundamental to succeeding as a front-end developer. I really love that this is a Zine as well!

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Would you explain what you mean by CSS not being as traditional an experience? Compared to what? Agree with the rest of your comment...

Programming, I'm guessing. Page layout was its own weird world even before HTML came along, and the explosion of devices and use cases has made the domain much weirder. Put 25 years of CSS evolution on top of that and it's very much its own beast. As somebody who's done mostly back-end work lately, whenever I approach CSS it's one WTF after another.

I keep hearing that it has settled down, though, so I am looking forward to learning it properly next I need to do something interface-y.

My biggest tip of advice for anyone dipping into CSS is to focus on _why_ CSS is behaving the way it is instead of memorizing the different properties and selectors. Some principles in CSS won't ever go away, and they will even explain how the newer features that "settled down" CSS work and make then even easier to use.

Where do you recommend learning those principles?

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