If this is your first time making a website, styling can really be overwhelming. With infinite options available, it's hard to start thinking about designs for all your different needs; especially if you're a bit new to CSS.

Appreciating CSS

After going through Web Design Playground by Paul McFedries, I realized that CSS is insanely deep. Not that it is difficult to learn, but I realized you can do so much with just CSS alone.

If you want a really good reference book to go back to whenever you're trying to remember some CSS related concept, or if you're looking for a book to provide really good CSS inspiration, I would highly recommend "Web Design Payground" mentioned above. It's great to read from start to finish, and it's also really good to go back to for reference as you need it.

Don't think that you need a super sophisticated understanding of CSS and JavaScript to make stunning websites. Yes, you might need a good understanding of a frontend framework like React to build am efficient web app, but a very simple understanding of JavaScript DOM libraries and CSS can take you a long way.

Advice on Using AI in Your Code

This is all just my personal advice. If you plan in using ChatGPT, or some equivalent, to help you code, narrow down your prompts as much as possible. If you're not too sure about the CSS of what you're trying to accomplish yourself, and you provide broad prompts to ChatGPT, the results you get are most likely not going to be what you expect, and you yourself won't know how to tweak the provided code to actually do what you want.