Rachel Andrew is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker. Author or co-author of 22 books including The New CSS Layout and a regular contributor to a number of publications both on and offline. Rachel is co-founder of the CMS Perch and Notist, Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, a Google Developer Expert and an Invited Expert to the CSS Working Group. She writes about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk.
For years we’ve explained that the web is not like print; that a particular idea is not how things work on the web; that certain things are simply not possible. Over the last few years, rapid browser implementation of advances in CSS have given us the ability to do many of these previously impossible things. We can use our new powers to build the same designs faster, or we can start to ask ourselves what we might do if we were solving these problems afresh.
In this talk, Rachel will look at the things coming into browsers right now which change the way we see web design. CSS subgrids allowing nested grids to use the track definition of their parent; logical properties and values moving the web away from the physical dimensions of a computer screen; screen experiences which behave more like an app, or even paged media, due to scroll snapping and multidimensional control. By understanding the new medium of web design we can start to imagine the future, and even help to shape it.
| Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS | An Event Apart Seattle | March 2019 |
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| Next Steps With CSS Layout Workshop | Rustbelt Refresh | March 2019 |
| TBC | Frontend NE | April 2019 |
| Next Steps With CSS Layout Workshop | Smashing Conference | April 2019 |
| Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS | An Event Apart Boston | May 2019 |
| Next Steps With CSS Layout Workshop | Frontend United | May 2019 |
| TBC | Frontend United | May 2019 |
| Next Steps With CSS Layout Workshop | Smashing Conference | June 2019 |
| Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS | An Event Apart Washington DC | July 2019 |
| Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS | An Event Apart Chicago | August 2019 |
| Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS | An Event Apart Denver | October 2019 |
| The Future of Web Design: Layout | Web Directions Summit | October 2018 |
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| The New CSS Layout | W3C Developer Meetup | October 2018 |
| Graduating to Grid | An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition 2018 | October 2018 |
| Your CSS Layout Toolkit for 2019 | Web Unleashed | September 2018 |
| Next Steps With CSS Layout Workshop | Web Unleashed | September 2018 |
| New Tools for CSS Layout | W3C Workshop on Digital Publication Layout and Presentation | September 2018 |
| Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout | Frontend Conference | August 2018 |
| Graduating to Grid | An Event Apart Chicago | August 2018 |
| Graduating to Grid | An Event Apart Washington DC | July 2018 |
| Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout | ScotlandCSS | July 2018 |
| Pattern Library First: An Approach for Managing CSS | Smashing Conference | June 2018 |
| Graduating to Grid | An Event Apart Boston | June 2018 |
| MC for CSS Day | CSS Day + UX Special | June 2018 |
| Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout | Webconf.asia | June 2018 |
| Well, this is suboptimal. | Shropgeek Rebellion #15 | May 2018 |
| Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout | All Day Hey! | April 2018 |
| Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout | Smashing Conference | April 2018 |
| Graduating to Grid | An Event Apart Seattle | April 2018 |
| Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout | WordPress Community Meetup, Seattle | March 2018 |
| The Creative New World of CSS | UX Immersion: Interactions | March 2018 |
| Into The Weeds of CSS Layout | Smashing Conference | February 2018 |
| Graduating to Grid | An Event Apart Denver: Special Edition 2017 | December 2017 |
| Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends | GDG DevFest London | November 2017 |
| Graduating to Grid | An Event Apart San Francisco | October 2017 |
| Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends | View Source | October 2017 |
| Start Using CSS Grid Layout Today | GDG DevFest Nantes | October 2017 |
| Start Using CSS Grid Layout Today | RuhrJS | October 2017 |
| Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends | Mirror Conf | October 2017 |
| Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends | 404.ie | October 2017 |
| Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends | Web Unleashed 2017 | September 2017 |
| Laying out the future with Grid and Flexbox | SmashingConf Freiburg 2017 | September 2017 |
| Perch, Patterns and Old Browsers | Patterns Day | June 2017 |
| What I discovered About Layout Via CSS Grid | CSS Day 2017 + Browser API Special | June 2017 |
| Start Using CSS Grid Layout Today | Frontend United 2017 | May 2017 |
| New CSS Layout Meets The Real World | An Event Apart - Boston 2017 | May 2017 |
| Where Does CSS Come From? | CSS Conf EU | May 2017 |
| Start Using CSS Grid Layout Today | Breaking Borders: Tinker's Toolbox | April 2017 |
| New CSS Layout Meets the Real World | An Event Apart - Seattle 2017 | April 2017 |
| Start Using CSS Grid Layout Today | Render Conf 2017 | March 2017 |
| Contribution and Confidence | All Things Open 2016 | October 2016 |
| CSS Grid Layout | An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition 2016 | October 2016 |
