Scalable CSS Masterclass

Andy Bell

Your instructor: Andy Bell

Workshop includes:

🔖 Examples to take away
🗣 Interactive sessions
📺 Workshop recordings
🎤 Dedicated Q&A time
🏅 Smashing Certificate

Unfortunately, this workshop is fully sold out! But you can join the waiting list in case a ticket becomes available:

Workshop, 5×2h + Q&A • Thu & Fri, May 9–23 2024
09:00 – 11:30 AM PT (Pacific Time) • 18:00 – 20:30 CET

CSS is amazing, and lots of people love it. However, one of the most heard complaints is how it doesn’t scale for larger projects. This is especially the case for developers that tend to focus on other parts of projects, rather than the front-end.

In this workshop, Andy Bell is going to teach you how to go about scaling CSS, based on years of experience working on huge, yet still very maintainable codebases.

Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

Interactive live sessions

5 × 2.5h live sessions

Practical insights

From methodology and workflow to creation

Hands-on exercises

With reviews by your teacher

Life-time access

To all video recordings and examples

Dedicated Q&A time

To ask all your questions

Smashing Certificate

A well-deserved reward for your work

CSS is infinitely scalable! Many people believe that CSS doesn’t scale, but this is often because they haven’t explored the most efficient ways to write and document CSS, or taken advantage of the modern CSS features, modern browsers, the cascade, and specificity.

The magic of this workshop is that the knowledge you learn will be applicable to projects of all shapes and sizes; not just large projects. You’ll benefit if you’ve written CSS for years, only just started or barely touched CSS as part of your day job but you’re keen to skill up.

You’ll learn loads of CSS while also gaining knowledge Andy learned in the years building these large projects, both making mistakes and delivering quality work.

Who Is This For?

This is a full workshop, delivered in five 2-hour long sessions with lots of time for Q&A. It’s for designers and developers. To follow along, you should have a fundamental understanding of HTML and CSS.

You’ll walk away from this workshop with a solid foundation about how to plan, execute, and maintain a large CSS codebase in your organization.

What you’ll learn

How to approach any sized CSS build, fearlessly
Planning and strategy techniques
Communication techniques
How to provide meaningful feedback to designers
Documentation skills
A completely flexible mental model while authoring CSS
Better, more effortless decision-making
Real world tricks that make scaling CSS easier
Progressive enhancement

If you want to see the complete schedule, scroll to the day-by-day overview.

About Andy Bell

Andy Bell is a designer and front-end developer from the UK who founded Set Studio. He's worked in the design and web industries for over 15 years, and in that time, has worked with some of the largest organisations in the world like Google, Harley-Davidson, BSkyB, Unilever, The Natural History Museum, Oracle, Capita, Vice Media and the NHS.

In that time, he's worked on both extremely large projects for huge organisations and tiny projects for small startups, allowing him to refine his CSS authoring processes and also share that knowledge by co-authoring Every Layout and the web.dev Learn CSS course.

Time & Schedule

This workshop is split over five days. Our virtual doors open at 8:45, we start at 9 AM PDT.

The workshop sessions will run on the following days:

Thu, May 9, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PDT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Fri, May 10, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PDT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Thu, May 16, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PDT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Fri, May 17, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PDT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)
Thu, May 23, 09:00 – 11:30 AM PDT (18:00 – 20:30 CET)