Hi, I’m Michelle

My name is Michelle Barker. I’m a Front End Developer at Ordoo, publisher of front end blog CSS {In Real Life}, and a Mozilla Tech Speaker.

Some sites I’ve worked on

A small selection of the sites I helped build while working at Mud.

Warner Brothers Studios Leavesden
Clore Social Leadership
Footprint Travel Guides

Writing

I write regularly on CSS topics for my own blog and occasionally other online publications, including CSS Tricks, Smashing Magazine and the Pastry Box Project.

Selected articles

Debugging CSS Grid: Understanding Implicit Tracks

CSS {In Real Life}
30th April 2019
How to Create Better Themes with CSS Variables

Logrocket
1st April 2019
Building a Dependency-free site in 2019

CSS {In Real Life}
22nd March 2019

Speaking

I sometimes speak about CSS at conferences and meetups. Past events include:

WordCamp Bristol
Future Sync
Upfront Conference
Bath Digital Festival
WDC
State of the Brower

View past presentations

About this site

This site was made with HTML, CSS, and nothing else. No frameworks, bundlers, preprocessors or compilers. Not even any Javascript. It’s still a work-in-progress.