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CSS-Tricks, Version 20
I've been bashing on updating this site's design for the last couple of weeks.
It's high time things get a fresh coat of paint, right? The last version of CSS-Tricks was pushed five years ago. That's ancient in web (and dog) years.
It's not like the site has simply sat all that time. We pushed lots of changes and shipped new features, particularly since 2024, but we never really got the paint brushes out of storage. Now, before there's a chorus of "things don't look thaaaat different" I want to say I'm rarely a fan of complete re-builds and tend to lean into iterative releases.
And the new v20 theme is what I'd call an iterative rollup that's worthy of a version bump. Let's go over the most notable updates to see why. Excavating Ghosts First and foremost, some of the biggest changes are what you don't see.
