HTML/CSS

How I Got Into It

I learned HTML and CSS from the SuperSimpleDev 6-hour crash course on YouTube. What I liked about that style is that it stayed practical. I could watch something, try it right away, break it, fix it, and feel the lesson in my hands instead of only in my notes.

That mattered because this part of my learning was very build-and-test from the start.

The Learning Process

HTML made sense to me first because structure is visible. CSS was where the real wrestling started. Spacing, layout, alignment, responsiveness, why something moves when I did not expect it to move. That part took repetition.

But it was good repetition. It taught me that front-end skill is not about memorizing a few properties. It is about understanding how the browser thinks.

How I Use It Now

I still use HTML and CSS constantly, even when I am working inside higher-level tools. They are underneath the work whether I am building in Next.js, translating something from Figma, or cleaning up a UI inside VS Code.

Knowing the fundamentals makes everything above them feel less fragile.

What It Changed

This was the point where web building became real for me. Before HTML and CSS, a lot of digital work can stay abstract. After them, I could make something visible and testable in the browser.

It also changed the way I looked at design. Once you have to implement it, you notice structure differently.

Related

Figma · JavaScript · Next.js · VS Code · YouTube as Learning Platform