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Start Learning HTML and CSS With This Ultimate Guide There are so many ways to learn web development, your problem might be how to choose a starting point. The design site CSS-Tricks has their own guide for learning HTML and CSS—but they’ve compiled plenty of alternatives into a wide-ranging but approachable list.

How to Get Better at Crosswords For some reason, lots of people believe that the ability to solve crossword puzzles is a talent doled out at birth to a select few. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Crosswords aren’t an immutable test of your vocabulary or intelligence—they’re a learnable skill that anyone can develop.

Which Wifi Band Should I Use for My Devices?Wireless networking is kind of like an emergency kit for your car (or earthquake-prone California home). You don’t really think much about it when it’s there, but you’re going to notice it’s missing when you need it. Also, you want to make sure it’s set up to give you the best possible experience.

How to Break Up With Someone Kindly Sometimes at the end of a relationship, we’re so sure we want nothing to do with the other person that we’re happy to scorch the earth with the break up conversation. But it’s probably better to do it with some compassion and empathy.

Throw Out All of Your Uncomfortable Underwear Right Now Life’s too short for uncomfortable underwear.

When Should You Reject a Job Offer?Applying for jobs is a lot like dating: it’s a draining, often-embarrassing process that requires a lot of effort for minimal return that stretches your small talk muscles to the max. Read the situation wrong and you will find yourself locked in a horrendously unpleasant situation that you can’t escape without upending your life, so instead you try to make it work by pretending that certain important things (sex, paid time off) were actually never something you cared about.

How to Cancel Your Gym Membership We get it—sometimes, a gym just doesn’t work out. Maybe it’s too crowded or the ceilings tiles are falling and landing on your head. It happens! Unfortunately, canceling your gym membership is a lot like competing in the Hunger Games, of which there are no winners, only the wounded.

What Happens When a President Declares a National Emergency?Today in the upside down, President Trump declared a national emergency in an effort to fund the U.S.-Mexico border. In doing so, he’ll effectively bypass Congress and gain access to billions of dollars, among other capacities, which include the ability to declare curfews and even limit our actual movements (yep). It’s a scary amount of power for any president to have, but what exactly does this declaration, well, declare? Here’s what you need to know:

How to Handle the End of a Business Relationship Since the journalism industry gets upended once a month or so, I consider myself an expert in business relationships—namely, what to do when you lose your primary career, your side-gig, your lucrative project, or even your relationship with a person who has been your lifeline to a particular industry or company.

What to Do If You're Rejected on Social Media The nuances of managing relationships on social media can give anyone a headache. And while I hate invoking the KonMari phrase, you shouldn’t have to put up with things (or people) that don’t spark joy in your digital gathering grounds. We’ve given you lots of tips on how to purge your online life of stupid, irritating people ... but what if you’re the one causing others grief?

How to Reduce the Number of Times You Forget Things Each Day When you consider about your day-to-day life, there are undoubtedly things you could change to make things easier. Rearrange the apps on your phone to make the ones you use most easily accessible, for example, or designate a place to leave your keys and wallet when you come home so you stop misplacing them.

Have a Successful First Date by Planning the Same Date Every Time Dating, of course, is a delicate dance with many unknown factors at any given moment.

Avoid These Unhealthy Responses to Rejection So, you’ve been rejected. Maybe someone turned you down, maybe you got dumped, maybe your partner asked for “space.” How do you win them back? Don’t.

Good Rules for Choosing Non-Fiction Books I have a few rules for choosing non-fiction books: I won’t read a book promising to reveal the “insider secrets” of an organization or field. (The author only knows 1% of the secrets, and they’ll oversell them.) If I find a book too broad or challenging, I go down a reading level—or even find a comic book version with a reliable co-author. And I don’t commit the way I do to fiction—sometimes I only need to read one chapter.

How to Cope When a City Rejects You For me, it was the construction that finally did it.

How to Set Your Friends Up On a Date So it’s finally happened. You’ve met someone great. They’re smart, they’re attractive, they have a job—and they’re perfect for your needlessly picky friend. We’ve all been there, you have one friend who’d be great for another and you’re positive they’d hit it off. But setting them up is easier said than done, unlike a rom-com meet-cute on a busy subway platform or at a wedding reception.

We Reject the Side Hustle Read enough about career and money, and you’ll start to see a lot of the same pieces of advice repeated over and over again. Most are sensible and innocuous. Some are downright bad.

Where to Vacation on Valentine's Day if You're Single Even if you claim to not care about Valentine’s Day, it’s pretty hard to avoid thinking about it. Love gets shoved in your face everywhere you turn—so, perhaps it’s time to wander through the desert alone?

How to Date After a Divorce In a former life, I was one of those trying women who would comment on articles about online dating with a “Wow. That sounds terrible. So glad I found my partner at 19 and got married by 25!” These comments were accompanied by an air of frantic smugness that is usually seen in a young woman who is just beginning to suspect she made a mistake.

How to Politely Reject Things as a Vegan My fellow vegans, it is time we address something that is keeping droves of would-be converts from joining our ranks—and tempts even the most dedicated of us into illicit animal-based infidelity. No, it’s not, animal-based cheeses or America’s fetishistic love for bacon. It’s saying no to free stuff.