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Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing

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Re: Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing

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Post by HeckFeck »

bovermyer wrote: post #15
vouaobrasil wrote: post #11

I still visit the site a lot for the Flexbox guide. Hey, it's sad that it went down but if I were Chris, I would have sold it too probably. That's the way it is in the economy of the internets: maintaining a community resource that is above and beyond typical SEO junk is hard work and DEFINITELY does not pay what it should, considering it's real value to the community. (It probably would if large tech companies did n…

I also use the site for the flexbox guide. I think I might have to just paraphrase the parts I keep referencing on my own site and use that as reference instead, just in case.

Thankfully you can save it as an infographic: https://css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/css-flexbo...

Re: Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing

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Post by MyFirstSass »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #23
MyFirstSass wrote: post #20

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As a marketing consultant I personally created a couple of websites that gained a lot of traction (in their niches) for a big corporation. When I handed over the keys to the employees of said company, they stopped working on it after just of couple of weeks. They simply couldn't be bothered. I was still hosting the websites. A year later they told me to pull the plug. I asked if I could take over the websites instead…

Exactly this i've tried myself, seen stuff of very obvious value thrashed because it didn't fit someones career-path, and seen million dollar projects just going in circles with no one knowing what they are doing but too proud to admit failure - very often there's a few people who see things very clearly in each company, but most people are just playing games.

In the smaller co-owned startups people have so many roles and have to be so absolutely tapped in everyone are talented, but the bigger the company, the more people are either just chillin' or working their life away on projects that are going nowhere, and there's seemingly little relation between skill, wages and position.

Sounds like a know it all - i know - but i'm seriously turned off after working at larger corps, to me it seems like mirror of an unjust society, which i think america and the west is to an increasingly absurd degree.

Re: Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing

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Post by red_admiral »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #9
shubhamjain wrote: post #3

I think CSS-Tricks was a big blunder on DigitalOcean's side. That explains why they pulled the plug on all their resources. They believed they could get sizeable traffic towards DigitalOcean and their products, but soon they realized (or some marketing/strategy person in the company proved it) that the audience that cares about CSS and front-end won't likely be buying their products. Because if it was giving them the…

The money in CSS is selling $500 courses with the same content as the free ones (because everyone is selling to beginners which is where the $ is), but with a great designer can make it look really sexy.

To be fair though, CSS is one of the things where a great designer who can make things look sexy might be worth that $500 to learn from. After all, your site looking better can translate to a lot of extra user engagement and money.
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