Build a responsive website with HTML & CSS | Part one: Analyzing the project and setting the stage

Starting a new project is always fun! In this one, we're starting with nothing and building out a Frontend Mentor project from scratch, looking at potential problems we can run into and how I would tackle them.
This is part 1 of this series, which will span the next few weeks.
🔗 Links
✅ The Frontend Mentor project: www.frontendmentor.io/challen...
✅ Andy Bell's reset: piccalil.li/blog/a-modern-css...
✅ Josh Comeau's reset: www.joshwcomeau.com/css/custo...
✅ More on prefers-reduced-motion: web.dev/prefers-reduced-motion/
⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - How I am going to approach this series
02:18 - Analysing the layout
08:12 - Getting started with Vite
11:49 - Making sure everything is working
13:40 - Adding a reset
20:18 - Setting up custom properties
43:01 - Creating utility classes
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Any other youtuber you would suggest for frontend?

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@@goggins8471 I don't watch many, but the channel Web Dev Simplified is also good, but he goes way fast and I confess sometimes I get lost on it

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Just because you're a software designer doesnt mean you can build a website.

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Thanks a lot for this type of series. Please create this type of series on SCSS. Please! Please!

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