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Ire Aderinokun on how can knowledge of the Critical Rendering Path be incredibly useful when improving your site’s performance.

Sara Soueidan shares some of the challenges and the solutions she used while redesigning the Smashing Magazine.

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Elad Shechter shares some advice on building a large-scale cross-product CSS architecture.

Sara Soueidan explains in detail why you need JavaScript if you want to create fully-accessible interactive components.

Gabrielle Wee shows how to create direction-aware CSS-only hover effects.

Luis Manuel demonstrates how to create a morphing hamburger menu with pure CSS.

Timothy B. Smith shows how simple it is to create a two column layout using CSS Grid.

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A simple tool that reads your stylesheet and builds a beautifully formatted styleguide.

In this talk, Mike Kus shares the secrets of how to extract an organisation’s identity, and use it as the inspiration for crafting truly distinctive web design.