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The New CSS Toolkit

Kevin Powell
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Workshop includes:

  • 🍵 Tea, coffee, snacks and drinks during the whole day
  • 🥪 Lunch
  • 📒 Paper and pen/pencil

Full-day workshop • Thursday, April 16, 2026.
Streamlining Development with Modern Features!
This comprehensive one-day workshop will take you on a journey through the most exciting developments in CSS over the past few years.

We’ll be exploring powerful layout techniques and advanced CSS features that will equip you with practical skills to build more maintainable, robust stylesheets and solve complex design challenges with less code.

Join us to explore how these powerful features can solve real-world design challenges while improving both user and developer experiences.

Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

  • Inspiring & Inclusive

    A full day of teaching in a friendly, inclusive group

  • Interactive & Practical

    Plenty of time for practice & feedback

  • Hands-on exercises

    With 1:1 reviews by Kevin

  • Cooperate

    Learn from your teacher and other attendees

  • Dedicated Q&A time

    To ask all your questions

  • Digital Smashing Certificate

    A well-deserved reward for your work

€549.00 Excl. 21% VAT Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

🎪  Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.

We’ll cover

You’ll explore modern CSS techniques that help you write cleaner, more flexible, and more robust styles — with a focus on what’s practical and useful today.

  • Modern approaches to layouts using Grid and Subgrid
  • Media, Container, and Style Queries
  • Modern selectors, such as :has(), :user-valid, and much more
  • Fluid spacing and typography using clamp() and new units like lh, cqw, dvb
  • New approaches to user interaction
  • Better developer experience with native nesting, cascade layers, and scoped styles
  • Container-aware component design and layout fallbacks
  • And a collection of small, practical tips and lesser-known features you can use right away

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for designers and developers who have at least a basic grasp of HTML and CSS. You don’t need to be a pro to follow along — but even if you are, you’ll pick up plenty of new things.

What hardware/software do you need?

Bring your laptop, your go-to text editor, and any real-world CSS challenges you’d like to tackle.

About Kevin J Powell

Kevin is a CSS evangelist and educator whose primary goal is to help people fall in love with CSS and, failing that, to at least help them be a little less frustrated by it.

He is best known for his YouTube channel, where he posts weekly educational videos that, he hopes, help both inspire and empower people to improve at CSS.

Time & Location

This full-day workshop will take place the day after SmashingConf. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM on Thursday, April 16.

Schedule for Thursday, April 16

9:00 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:30 AM – Introduction & Kick-off
11:00 AM – Coffee Break
1:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Afternoon Session
3:30 PM – Coffee Break
5:00 PM – The End

Save 100 EUR when signing up for the conference and a workshop!

€549.00 Excl. 21% VAT Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

🎪  Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.