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Re:We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:59AM (#15592859)
>The average developer can't even CSS,

What do you mean by that? How sophisticated is it to "do CSS"? When I've dealt with it, you basically look at the inspector and at your CSS libraries of preexisting classes, and basically do a combination of attaching classes and writing new ones with custom styles until you get it all to look right.

What should I be looking to learn?

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Re:We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2... by CydeWeys on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @09:02AM (#15592878)
He means do it well. There's a lot to doing CSS well, and frankly I just don't have any interest in learning all the ins and outs. It's not a fun platform to work in, it's very fiddly, and it's not exactly programming either.

There's an art-form to doing amazing pixel perfect web designs, and I really respect the people who are good at it. That's not me though, and it's never going to be me.

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Re:We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2... by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @09:46AM (#15601060)
Yeah, the front-end designer at work basically said it's a black art.
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