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Learn to write better, resilient CSS

If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves.

Through a series of simple, composable layouts, Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS.

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Every Layout has helped thousands of developers and companies simplify CSS layout in their projects

Employing algorithmic layout design means doing away with @media breakpoints, “magic numbers”, and other hacks, to create context-independent layout components.

Your future design systems will be more consistent, terser in code, and more malleable in the hands of your users and their devices. Every Layout is now in its 3rd edition and has helped some of the largest companies in the world achieve exactly this.

BBC
W3C
Web.Dev
Freeagent
9 Elements
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Bliss
Studio 24

Let these happy folks tell you how Every Layout helped them

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Kevin Powell

I can’t recommend Every Layout enough. Fantasic for all of the layouts you can use in your projects obviously, but also for how much you’ll learn about flexbox, and CSS in general.

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Amie Chen

CSS is one of the few things I’m comfortable with, but I’m still learning A TON reading Every Layout. Such a great resource!

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Josh Tumath

Even two years later, Every Layout is still the best resource for learning common, intrinsic layout patterns. It’s revolutionized our design system at the BBC. I’m always sharing it with colleagues who want more experience with CSS.

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Mariana Cortés Rueda

This is dev love in form of a resource guide and you’d do well in reviewing it and sharing it. Yes. AGAIN. Thank you Heydon and Andy for this piece of niche art.

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Jess Peck

Every Layout is a fantastic resource, a great reference, and also has really helped me understand the structure and styling decisions that go into building websites.

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Chris Weekly

Every Layout has fantastic free content, but the full price for all the materials (book, site, components) has had absurdly high ROI for me. I spent less than an hour’s consulting wages, and it’s been transformative - a gift that keeps giving. Highest possible recommendation

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P J Łaszkowicz

Started web development in 1997 and approached the same problems with CSS with updated solutions over the years. Even after all this time references like Every Layout from Andy and Heydon are invaluable materials for re-reading and improving.

Best practices do work

Some influential people have framed CSS as a flawed technology. They’ve encouraged CSS authors to brute force layout in ways that don’t make the most of CSS’s features.

With our introductory chapters, the “rudiments”, we catch you up on just how smart and elegant modern CSS can be. What you learn in these chapters is then applied to 12 specially designed, modular layout solutions, documented with customizable code generators and implemented as handy custom elements.

We teach you best practices that are guaranteed to make you a better, well-rounded CSS programmer, whether you are a full-stack developer, a designer, a back-end developer or even a ${yourJobTitleHere}.

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Three boxes stacked on top of each other

The Stack

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A simple rectangle shape

The Box

A rectangle shape centered in the horizontal space

The Center

A cluster of boxes of different widths, laid out like words in a paragraph

The Cluster

A narrow and wide element laid out adjacently, transforming into two elements on top of each other

The Sidebar

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A set of three horizontally aligned boxes transforming into three vertically stacked boxes

The Switcher

A box with one large box in its vertical centre and two shorter boxes at its head and foot

The Cover

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A grid of equal sized boxes (three columns and three rows)

The Grid

A box with decorative corners

The Frame

A box with a horizontal scrollbar containing a line of box-like elements. The last one on the right is cut in half

The Reel

One box superimposed over a grid of other boxes

The Imposter

A cross icon

The Icon

The Container

Meet the authors who brought you Every Layout

Heydon Pickering

Heydon is a front-end developer and technical writer specializing in inclusive interface design. They have written and edited a number of books on designing for the web. Every Layout is his second to be republished in Japan.

Heydon has consulted organizations like Spotify, The BBC, and SpringerNature, helping them to code and document accessible design systems. They also own an online gallery that lets you create and print unique, generative artworks.

Andy Bell

Andy is a designer and front-end developer who founded Set Studio: an agency who specialise in producing stunning websites that work for everyone.

Andy has also spent well over a decade specializing in simplifying CSS to make it scale-up for design system projects—in some cases, accessible to millions of people—for some of the largest organizations in the world, such as Google, Harley-Davidson, Vice Media and the NHS. He also wrote the majority of Learn CSS, a CSS course by web.dev.

Buy Every Layout For Only $69

You get a lot of bang for your buck, including…

Access to all the site content, including all the layouts and layout generators. All available offline too!

Every Layout as a book, in the EPUB format, for reading with your preferred reader.

The full set of layout components, implemented as interoperable custom elements.

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