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CSS

Posted by Michael Cook
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Michael Cook
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 28,975 Points

How to write accurate CSS for a project?

I am new to front-end development and I hope to become a freelancer once I feel my skills are a little sharper. But I keep wondering: how does one produce 100% accurate CSS for a designer's design? It not hard to produce something that looks and behaves very similarly to a design, but without the designer specifying specific numbers for things like widths, paddings, line spacing etc, it would be difficult and very time-consuming produce accuracy without anything more than a visual guide. How do web developers deal with this?

1 Answer

Ceil-Ian Maralit
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Ceil-Ian Maralit
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 19,434 Points
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Ceil-Ian Maralit
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 19,434 Points

Hello! I'm also a developer and also had that problem before, actually everyone experiences it. But, in the real-world, most of us or all of us already uses Bootstrap, a front end framework. Treehouse has a course for that, it is amazing. After taking that course, you will not worry about lower-level repetitive details.

Michael Cook
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Michael Cook
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 28,975 Points

Thank you for your answer. I think it is important for those who are still early in their learning journey to remember that the learning never stops, and there is always a framework or a library that will help make tedious and repetitive tasks easier. Not that it isn't important to learn the hard way first though!