Hui Jing Chen

Most of us regularly read web development articles or watch videos that talk about the latest web features, or techniques for implementing all the things and so on. I don't know about you, after almost 3 decades of existence, I realised I'm more of a learn-by-doing kind of person.
Building little components from scratch is a great way to cement your knowledge of CSS properties and try out all those cool things you've read or heard about. You never know when it might come in handy...

The very first website was launched on 6 Aug 1991, and today there are more than one billion websites in existence. Nearly all of them are laid out from top-to-bottom, left-to-right. But Chinese can also be written vertically. Chinese typography has evolved differently from Latin-based languages and we'll be covering the basics of Chinese characters, fonts and typography and how to translate all that to the web with CSS. And even if you don't use Chinese, the ability to build vertical layouts opens up a myriad of options for creative and interesting designs.