Layout on the web has always been tricky, but with CSS Grid being now supported in all major browsers, most of the hacks that helped to achieve complex layouts have become obsolete.

Firefox even has a CSS Grid Inspector¹ built in, so that there’s nothing to hold you back from making even the most challenging flexible layout reality.

To explore the possibilities and features of CSS Grid together, we’d love to invite you to a little contest. Because there’s nothing better to completely grasp a new technology as getting your hands dirty and playing with it, right?

CSS Grid Challenge — Show your CSS Grid skills and, with a bit of luck, win a smashing prize.

The Challenge Link

Now, here’s the challenge: You create an interesting, accessible layout with CSS Grid, or use CSS Grid to rebuild an existing layout. What you web design Murfreesboro Tennessee is entirely up to you. Feel free to use Flexbox additionally as well, e.g. as fallback for browsers not supporting CSS Grid. The only requirement is that the template you submit doesn’t break in IE9 and is still fully accessible in IE8. Deadline: September 30th.

At the end of the contest, all templates and layouts will be made available to everyone for free download under the MIT license. So you can use them for personal and commercial projects without any restrictions. The aim is to build a community repository full of CSS Grid goodness that inspires fellow developers and helps spread the wide adoption of CSS Grid.

So, What Can You Win? Link

After the deadline has ended, we’ll announce the lucky winners who’ll win a quite extraordinary smashing prize (and a couple of other Smashing extras, see below):

a round-trip flight to Barcelona, Spain,
full accommodation in a fancy hotel,
a ticket to the Smashing Conference Barcelona 2017²,
a Smashing workshop of your choice,
a signed edition of our upcoming book Design Systems³ by Alla Kholmatova,
your very own Smashing caricature, designed just for you.

Getting Started With CSS Grid Link

Last but not least, before you dive right into the challenge, here are some helpful resources to kick-start your CSS Grid adventure.

Resources and References Link

Grid Garden⁴: A game for learning CSS Grid
GridBugs⁵: A community-curated list of bugs, incomplete implementations and interop issues
Awesome CSS Grid⁶: A manually curated list of CSS resources
Grid by Example⁷: Examples, videos and other information to help you learn CSS Grid Layout
Rachel Andrew’s Grid Guide⁸: the complete guide to Box Alignment, Flexbox, and Grid
CSS Grid Layout⁹: Examples, references and guides by the Mozilla team
Chrome CSS Grid Highlighter¹⁰: a little Chrome extension that highlights CSS grids.