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Andy Bell

Andy is the founder of Piccalilli and design agency, Set Studio. He mostly specialises in CSS — whether that is publishing an in-depth course on CSS and soft skills, writing a CSS course for Google, co-authoring a book on CSS layout, or creating a methodology to help people write better CSS.

He obsesses about designing and building for everyone with a sharp focus on progressive enhancement and being the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager.

Latest articles by Andy Bell

  1. A new article layout and better options for advertisers

    We’ve been working really hard to balance making articles easier to read and to provide advertisers with much better options to sustain Piccalilli in the long term.

    Announcements

  2. We’ve implemented full brands for our upcoming courses

    After a truck-load of work, we’ve given our upcoming courses branded landed pages so that our authors have their own little home to express themselves on Piccalilli.

    Announcements

  3. A handy use of subgrid to enhance a simple layout

    subgrid in CSS is really handy for getting a nice level of design detail in place, especially in terms of maintaining a nice reading line, as Andy shows in this article.

    CSS

  4. Some interesting results from the 2025 Piccalilli survey

    We've taken a cut of the respondents from our 2025 survey, so it's time to break down what the data is telling us and how that relates to our longer term plans to go all-in on Piccalilli.

    Announcements

  5. Identifying issues with design assets

    We’ve just arrived the prototypes and technical planning sprint and up until this point the focus has been heavily swayed towards creativity. Now it’s all about working out what can work in the browser, what needs walking back and what needs fixing.

    Open Working Project: Course Brand Development