Allison Wagner

CSS & HTML Expert

Allison is an enthusiastic front-end web dev working with the awesome folks at Happy Cog in their Philadelphia office. Allison specializes in the art of abstracting design systems from comps to code; large-scale CSS systems built from the ground up are her bread-and-butter.

In addition to speaking at conferences like SXSWi, Allison writes for Happy Cog’s Cognition and teaches web development for GirlDevelopIt. You can find her on Twitter or listen to her on an episode of the ShopTalk podcast.

Ask the Sherpas by this author

  1. Question About HTML for Restaurant Menus

    Oh, you mean besides linking to a PDF? I kid. Though, not really. Unfortunately, a PDF has become the “menu solution” for many restaurant sites. This presents a host of issues, from…

  2. Question About Using CSS Grid Systems

    Let’s first establish that by “CSS Grid systems,” you mean CSS grid frameworks like Foundation, 960, and Bootstrap. Because I think many developers nowadays use grid systems…

  3. Question About Frameworks, Preprocessors and Libraries

    As great as today’s pre-processors, frameworks and libraries are, understanding the fundamentals of HTML, CSS and JS is hugely important. Using something like a CSS pre-processor, for example,…

  4. Question About Object Oriented CSS

    Yay! I love this question because it touches on a very common misconception about Object Oriented CSS. The answer is no. OOCSS does not mean you have to degrade your markup with tons…