660: Teaching CSS, Conferences, and Masonry Updates

Hey there, Shopify Man. Actually, you're listening to another episode of the Shop Talk Show podcast all about print and web design and development. I'm Dave Rupert with. Hey, Chris. How are you doing, everybody? Well, we got a couple of questions that we can get in from people. I think actually, I think none of them are questions. I almost prefer it when they're not. I mean, questions are fine, but, like, when they come in, they're just like more of a statement, actually. Yeah. But we've asked you know, we've said, you know, if you have a topic, you'd like us to talk about the topic. But, yeah, the yeah. Certainly, the classic Q and A are real good at that. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, oh, I have something to say. It's okay. You know, this was many, many, many episodes ago, but not, you know, not a zillion, but some. We were talking about, like, what if we had the opportunity to teach CSS from scratch? It was probably, like, leaning into my inner my inner worry that, that's something I'd like to do at some point, but it's so saturated. You know? So many people have done, like, an intro to CSS course. And didn't we have Andy on, like, two episodes ago? He's got a brand new one. Hard to out do that one. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Totally. Front end masters is full of stuff. I mean, how many CSS courses are there? I've never gotten to do one. I still might someday because I really I I think I want to. But, anyway, pretty saturated, so I'd have to find my own spin on it. But John Jones here wrote in with lots of thoughts about it. Unfortunately, John, we read it all, but can't read it all in the air. It's a little too long, but he said it. Anyway, if I had to teach CSS from scratch, I would ask the students what their interests are, get them to write it down in some kind of existing CMS like thing that provides basic HTML structure, then work towards customizing the style of it first as a near clone of some existing design and then building from there. So I kinda like that idea. I kinda like, you know, make them think of a CMS too because I think that's a crucial part of things is like you don't you're not just styling you style something. So it's just already it has a bunch of constraints in it, and web design is all about constraints anyway. So do that, and that's what websites are all about anyway. And then style that. But, again, constraints, style it like something else, and then go from there. I just I I like that. I think that's a John Jones, that's a clever way of going about it. Yeah. Because a lot of the job isn't, like I can replicate a dribble or pixel perfect from scratch. …