--- title: CSS is Awesome with Kevin Powell date: 2022-03-22T05:00:00-04:00 author: Sean Smith canonical_url: "https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-6/css-is-awesome-with-kevin-powell/" section: Podcast --- <!\[CDATA\[YII-BLOCK-BODY-BEGIN\]\]>[Skip to main content](#main-content)![Kevin Powell](https://website101podcast.com/uploads/hosts/_200x200_crop_center-center_none/kevin-powell.jpg)Guest Kevin Powell Helping people fall in love with CSS [ ](KevinJPowell) Season 05 Episode 6 – Mar 22, 2022 47:54 [Show Notes](#show-notes) ## CSS is Awesome with Kevin Powell LISTEN0:00 0:00 [](//dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/website101podcast.com/uploads/mp3/season-05/S05-E06-kevin-powell.mp3) Kevin Powell CSS evangelist discusses everything to do with CSS and why it is awesome. ### Show Notes - Kevin's history with web development and teaching - Teaching in classroom vs online teaching - How do you decide what you are going to teach? - Where do you go to learn about new things in CSS that you want to teach? - Upcoming CSS including *Cascade Layers*, *CSS nesting*, *Container queries,* and *Query units* - Kevin's thoughts on frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap, Tailwind) and Sass vs regular Css*.* - min-content max-content fit-content - Browser support and progressive enhancement - Accessibility - CSS naming conventions - BEM ### Show Links - [CSS Layout News](https://csslayout.news/) - [CSS Weekly](https://css-weekly.com/) - [Modern CSS newsletter](https://thinkdobecreate.com/newsletter/) - [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/) - [Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com/) - [Foundation](https://get.foundation/sites/docs/) - [SASS](https://sass-lang.com/) - [3 useful CSS values that most people don’t know about](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM244V9KvNs) - [The 6 most important CSS concepts for beginners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnTPd9G6hoY) - [5 important HTML concepts for beginners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ0-fUJ-2F0) - [BEM](http://getbem.com/) - [Scrimba](https://scrimba.com/teachers/kevin-powell) Have a question for Sean, Mike, and Amanda? [Send us an email](/contact). [![Listen on Google Play Music](/assets/images/google_podcasts_badge@2x.png)](https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWJzaXRlMTAxcG9kY2FzdC5jb20vZmVlZC5yc3M%3D)[![itunes badge](/assets/images/itunes-badge.png)](https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/website-101-podcast/id1449510012)[![itunes badge](/assets/images/spotify-logo.png)](https://open.spotify.com/show/3rmSM1R9t6q1U8DmYWJRSO?si=NrYPMgDaRV6Dd56PjEaPow)### Season 05 - 1 [ Meet your Host - Sean](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-1/meet-your-host-sean/) - 2 [ Meet Your Host - Mike Mella](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-2/meet-your-host-mike-mella/) - 3 [ Wes Bos - Your Web Boss](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-3/wes-bos-your-web-boss/) - 4 [ Tailwind CSS with Adam Wathan](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-4/tailwind-css-with-adam-wathan/) - 5 [ Starting my own Website with Bill Campbell](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-5/starting-my-own-website-with-bill-campbell/) - 6 [ CSS is Awesome with Kevin Powell](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-6/css-is-awesome-with-kevin-powell/) - 7 [ Meet Your Host - Amanda](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-7/meet-your-host-amanda/) - 8 [ 11 Things to avoid doing on your website](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-8/11-things-to-avoid-doing-on-your-website/) - 9 [ Vanilla Javascript - Fundamentals before Frameworks](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-9/vanilla-javascript-fundamentals-before-frameworks/) - 10 [ Hiring Junior Devs and How to Stand Out from the Crowd](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-10/hiring-junior-devs-and-how-to-stand-out-from-the-crowd/) - 11 [ AlpineJS with Caleb Porzio: Lightweight javascript in your markup.](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-11/alpinejs-with-caleb-porzio-lightweight-javascript-in-your-markup/) - 12 [ Contract Opinions From Not a Lawyer](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-12/contract-opinions-from-not-a-lawyer/) - 13 [ Talking to a New Dev](https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-05/episode-13/talking-to-a-new-dev/) ### All Seasons - [Season 01](https://website101podcast.com/season/01/) - [Season 02](https://website101podcast.com/season/02/) - [Season 03](https://website101podcast.com/season/03/) - [Season 04](https://website101podcast.com/season/04/) - [Season 05](https://website101podcast.com/season/05/) - [Season 06](https://website101podcast.com/season/06/) - [Season 07](https://website101podcast.com/season/07/) - [Season 08](https://website101podcast.com/season/08/) - [Season 09](https://website101podcast.com/season/09/) <!\[CDATA\[YII-BLOCK-BODY-END\]\]>