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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. If we stop, we lose

    A lot has changed in our industry but what hasn't changed is the need for education. This post will hopefully be the shot in the arm a lot of us need.

    Opinion

  2. Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped

    It’s annoying when your browser zooms if a button is rapidly tapped. There’s actually a really simple fix and no, you don’t have to prevent all zooming with a meta tag!

    CSS

  3. A decent custom checkbox pattern for until ::checkmark is ready

    We're a while off from being able to leverage ::checkmark with checkbox styling, but here's a decent way to get the styling control you want, while preserving the useful parts of the native input element.

    CSS

  4. Personal website redesign project post: A CLI for adding new music to the collection

    Adding markdown files for every new music item is a faff, so I built a multi-step CLI to do it for me.

    Open Working Project: Personal website redesign

  5. Personal website redesign project post: A little progressive enhancement as a treat

    What do you do when you're working with a rate limited API, a large content base and a dream? Progressive enhancement of course.

    Open Working Project: Personal website redesign