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building a new website and I'm enjoying taking a content-first approach to building. at first, write as little CSS as possible; rely on browser defaults for almost everything. focus on the content. only move onto styling once you have a site that is semantic, accessible, and performant.

I see a lot of people begin with visuals and then try to reverse-engineer content to fit the aesthetic they have created. things fall into place much more naturally when you're using visuals to enhance what's already being said well

So many client sites would start with mock-ups from non-web savvy designers, then have to be completely re-done during the build process, with team friction, which added quite-a-bit more scope. Sadly it's nearly impossible to sell a client on doing it this way — or designing the home page last.

lucky to have a very cool client in this case :)