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Building with Tailwind

Tailwind is a frontend development framework, which makes layout and styling of websites easier. A good choice if you're building a website entirely from scratch. It's becoming a popular tool with a lot of freelancers and web design agencies. A good knowledge of HTML and CSS is required, to get the most from Tailwind.

Tailwind is not like traditional frameworks (like Bootstrap) which can potentially add a huge quantity of wasteful CSS and Javascript code to the website; most of which you never use. Tailwind instead looks at what classes you are adding to your HTML and compiles a custom CSS file containing only the code you need. It's like magic! The end result is a beautiful website, but one that is extremely fast-loading and promotes all the best web design and development practices.

I only mention this here because the website you are viewing right now is built with Tailwind; and Tailwind + WebYep are a fantastic combination to use together. Tailwind is one of the hottest technologies to emerge in 2022.

If you are interested in playing with Tailwind and building your first website with it, I highly recommend you follow this video tutorial on YouTube by Traversy Media, which covers everything you need to know.