https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-is-joining-digitalocean/ Skip to main content CSS-Tricks * Articles * Videos * Almanac * Newsletter * Guides * DigitalOcean * DO Community Search CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! Avatar of Chris CoyierAvatar of Chris Coyier Chris Coyier on Mar 15, 2022 DigitalOcean joining forces with CSS-Tricks! Special welcome offer: get $100 of free credit. Hey hey! I've got a big announcement to make here. (Where's my gong? I feel like this really needs a good gong hit.) CSS-Tricks, this very website you're looking at, has been acquired by DigitalOcean! You can hear from them directly on the DigitalOcean blog as well. Digital Ocean logo + CSS-Tricks logo under the sea with little fishies.Digital Ocean logo + CSS-Tricks logo under the sea with little fishies. This will be the most fun if we have a conversation about it, so allow me to kick it off. I'll pretend to be you at first and then you can be you in the comments. Hey, congrats! Thanks! DigitalOcean? Aren't they like a... web host? They are! A very good one. You can build anything on DigitalOcean infrastructure (probably best to think of them as a cloud computing platform that has tools ranging from servers to managed Kubernetes). One thing I think is particularly cool is their new App Platform which to me feels extra aligned with front-end developers like me. We've covered that before. Also, their whole concept of Droplets (super simple servers that are quick to spin up) has been transformative in the industry. But more importantly about this acquisition... have you seen their DigitalOcean Community site? It's loaded with top-notch developer education. DigitalOcean has been super committed to that for a long time, and to me makes this a very natural and well-suited move. What happens to CSS-Tricks? The site and content is staying right here. DigitalOcean is committed to continuing to produce high-quality content on front-end development and tending to the trove of content that exists here already. Will you still be running CSS-Tricks? I will be working with the DigitalOcean team as an advisor as we transition CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean's management, and will then step back to focus on my other projects. Why now? When I started CSS-Tricks in 2007, I couldn't have imagined how much it would grow. I wanted it to grow, that was the plan, but now it's a far bigger job than any one person can do. That, I was never ready for. Let me take a quick moment to give some thanks here. I had the incredible help of Geoff as lead editor, sponsor wrangler, and site manager. Robin turned the newsletter into the must-read industry rag it is now. It's a family business as well! My wife Miranda helped with the books, working with authors, and her guidance on running the site as a proper publication has led the site where it is. I literally couldn't have done it without any one of them. And of course, the incredible group of authors, with a special shout out to Sarah, a long-time staff writer and friend. A small but mighty team, indeed. And that's the thing. CSS-Tricks deserves more human muscle behind it than I've been able to provide for it. That's where DigitalOcean comes in. That's the "why now." They have the resources to put behind CSS-Tricks, and the motivation to do so. I fully trust them to do it, as they've been successfully doing it themselves for a long time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- OK! Your turn! If you have any thoughts or questions, feel free to comment below. We'll read them all and publish anything useful and constructive. DigitalOcean joining forces with CSS-Tricks! Special welcome offer: get $100 of free credit. Comments 1. Andy Bell Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Chris, thank you so much for everything. Back in 2009, I started doing web stuff for clients and frankly, bit off more than I could chew and CSS-Tricks was so valuable to me, helping me through that. This site has always been here ever since and has forever been a valuable source of content. I've been lucky enough to have my writing published on here, so thanks for that too. Reply + Paul J Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Same. Thanks Chris & congrats. + Lee Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Dude, awesome news for you and the site! I would not be the developer I am today without this resource and the wealth of knowledge from the community it's generated. How darn exciting! 2. Manuel Matuzovic Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations and thanks a lot for your amazing work over the past 15 years, Chris. I wish you good luck, a lot of fun and all the best for what's ahead of you! Reply 3. cn-d Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 congrats!! Reply 4. Kevin Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 WOW! Congrats Chris, and everyone who's behind the phenom that is css-tricks. I've been a long-time fan -- discovered your site around 2008 -- and check is almost daily now. I'm inspired by how you've managed to grow and scale everything. And I've been a DigitalOcean fan & customer for nearly as long. You're right, their in-depth knowledge articles are cream of the crop. This is a great fit, and should become a win/win/win/win situation. Thanks for all the knowledge! Kevin Reply 5. Ramzi Dreessen Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 What an awesome website and resource. Congratulations Reply 6. Alec Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats Chris and the team. As someone who only gets limited time to spend on web development I really appreciate the range and quality of the articles on here. I wish more sites were like this, but hopefully this acquisition will mean there will be more of this site. Reply 7. Joseph Shambrook Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 CSS-Tricks has been my main go-to site for CSS tidbits and inspiration since I started my Web Dev career way back in 2011. To everyone at CSS-Tricks but particularly you Chris - congratulations, and thank you. Reply 8. Yash Singh Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats Chris and I wish you good luck on your future projects and hope they also get as big as css-tricks and help people around the world. Reply 9. Napolux Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 I'm a better developer also because of you. Thanks for CSS-tricks :) And as a proud digitalocean client I wish everyone the best in this new venture! Reply 10. Patrick Hall Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations Chris! Really grateful to you for running this site. It's been a stalwart voice for developers and the open web. Good luck with whatever cool thing you do next! Reply 11. Paul Shryock Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats on the sale, and good luck with whatever's next. Looking forward to many more years of great reading here. Cheers. Reply 12. Eetu Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats, Chris! I can't stress enough how large of an impact CSS-Tricks has had on my professional growth. Especially during my early career, it really helped demystify some of the tech-talk that I couldn't wrap my head around. Thanks for everything, and all the best with whatever you choose to do next! Reply 13. Pete Barr Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Chris, you're a legend mate. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, what you created was/is next level. Hat tip. Onwards and upwards! Cheers Reply 14. Lucas Dechow Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 This is great! I know how weird it must feel letting go of all this. I am super proud of what you achieved and highly regard you as the mentor you are. I know it must have been tiresome running this, together with all your other projects especially around Codepen. But the amount of content you produced, the quality of it, and the guidance and learning you gave was the greatest gift of all this. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it all. Keep on trucking, I will be here for the journey Reply 15. James Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats, I've been dipping in to the content here almost every day and have found it invaluable. Thanks you and your team for all the hard work thus far and going forward. Reply 16. Bryan Robinson Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Chris, thanks for a site that has been instrumental in making me the developer I am today! There was always a resource for everything I was struggling with! Thank you for running the site with empathy for readers, developers, and authors. Congratulations on this next step for you and for the site! It's literally one of the highlights of my career to have been published here and look forward to doing it again under DO's purview as well! Reply 17. Leonardo Losoviz Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Wow, congrats! CSS-Tricks is one of my favorite sites, I've learnt so much from it and has made me smile so many times. Thanks so much for having made one of the best sites of the Internet! Your articles and insights will certainly be missed Reply 18. Justin Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats on the acquisition. Your mark on the internet will forever be remembered. Looking forward to seeing your new projects come to life. Reply 19. A Web Guy Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats Chris and team!! I basically built my career on the back of all the hard work y'all put into this site. Thanks for all the amazing and accurate content. Here's to another 15 years! Reply 20. Helen V. Holmes Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Wow! What a huge change. Since 2010 or so I've regularly read CSS Tricks articles to learn web development and became so familiar with your name on the byline. Congratulations on the acquisition and best of luck in whatever's next! Reply 21. Zack Hall Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations! This website has helped me so much. To the point that when I search for something css related on google I automatically search " css-tricks". Tough to tell how many people's careers you and team have positively impacted. Reply 22. Kyle Gach Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Massive congratulations, Chris & team! Like many, many others I'm sure, I owe a large portion of my career to the generosity and consistently amazing helpfulness of this website and everything you've built it to stand for. Thank you for everything, and I hope this change results in even more people discovering the joy of "just build websites!", in a way that lets y'all breathe a bit easier! Reply 23. Jerod Santo Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats Chris and the team! At this point, I don't even think of CSS-Tricks as a website. I think of it as an institution. A profound thanks for all your years of dedication and I hope the next chapter is the best one yet. Reply 24. Mario Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations to you Chris, and everyone around you who have contributed!! Thank you for all the content you've shared. I've learned a lot from you over the years, along with, I'm sure many thousands of others. You've made the world a better place. Congrats again! Reply 25. Sami Makela Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Well done Chris! it's been an absolute joy following your journey. I think I've been an avid reader roughly from around the start and you've always been a bastion of knowledge I've relied on :) Reply 26. Vebjorn Letnes Berg Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Thanks heaps for all your hard work and effort Chris, as well to the rest of your team. You guys will always be remembered as rockstars! Reply 27. Dhananjay Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 A huge thanks to you, Chris, Geoff, and everybody else on this brilliant team. CSS-Tricks has been a huge part of my learning curve since I got into front-end (started off with tweaking CSS) almost two years ago. So thank you! Reply 28. Matt Duffin Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats! CSS Tricks has been an essential resource in the frontend world for so long I am glad to hear that it is entering a new chapter. Reply 29. Brad Frost Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 CSS Tricks was, is, and likely will continue to be an invaluable resource for front-end web development. I owe so much to this publication. Thanks for everything, and here's to the next chapter! Reply 30. Eddie Potros Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 I've followed you for years so best of luck in this transition Chris. You made a difference to all CSSers ;) Reply 31. Eric Mikkelsen Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 CSS Tricks made web dev feel like anyone could do this, and we're just all trying to figure it out together. Thanks a million for making this seem more approachable. Reply 32. Christopher Kirk-Nielsen Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats Chris and team! You have my sincerest thanks as CSS-Tricks has been instrumental to my betterment as a developer with its invaluable content, from whimsy tricks to complete guides. Well done and well deserved! (and thanks for publishing a few words of mine) Reply 33. Dave Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 CSS Tricks has always had a human-friendly tone that made me a lifelong fan. The amount of information I have consumed from this site is innumerable and has helped me countless times in my own journey as a developer. Onwards and upwards, Chris - you really are a legend! Reply 34. Chris Silverman Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations, Chris. CSS-Tricks has been one of my top five go-tos when I need help with something; reassuring to know it remains in good hands. Reply 35. Dean Leigh Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations Chris, I must have used your site two or three times a week for reference since it went live. Thanks for all the hard work you put into it and best of luck with future ventures. Reply 36. Heyman Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Hey, I'm a long time reader but just remembered now that I've never commented. Your website and articles have been of great help. Thank you! Reply 37. tnvmadhav Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Thank you for all the hard work! All the very best for your coming projects :) Reply 38. Christian May Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Hi, Chris - congratulations! Under Digital Ocean, will there still be the opportunity for developers to guest write for CSS-Tricks? Reply + Chris Coyier Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 100%. And we've already updated the guest posting page to reflect the DigitalOcean process. It's very similar, and even pays more! Guest Writing for CSS-Tricks 39. Deborah Edwards-Onoro Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats! CSS Tricks has been a part of my web design life since it launched. I can't count the hundreds of times I searched for solutions on this site and found the answers I was looking for. Chris, you made a huge difference for me learning CSS. Thank you and wishing you the best in your next chapter. Reply 40. Andrew Boyd Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 You got me started down this road back in 2008 and I really appreciate it. [?] Reply 41. Prateek Rungta Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 CSS Tricks has gone from a curiosity to a frequent mention to an authority to a dependency. Always a relief when a front-end dev question's search includes a result from CSS Tricks because you know that it'll demonstrate all the possible working solutions, provide the much needed background context, share the future community roadmap and deftly guide you through the whole story. Thank you for everything, and may CSS Tricks only grow bigger and better! Reply + Eric Mize Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 For many years, CSS Tricks has been my go to site for understanding some of the subtle nuances (read as "insanely frustrating things") of CSS. Thank you (and your team) for all the effort you poured into this site. 42. Max Fenton Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Thank you for years and years of this. Endlessly grateful. Reply 43. Gokhan Mete Erturk Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Csstricks has been a unique and invaluable resource for front-end developers for the last 15 years. Thank you Chris for everything you've done for us. Congratulations to you and your family. Reply 44. Parker Bennett Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Chris, thanks for everything you've created and for your generous sharing and teaching. Looking forward to seeing what's next! Reply 45. Ifeoluwa Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats for creating a Stack Overflow for HTML and CSS... I still come back to the flexbox section to refresh my memory... Well-done! Reply 46. Jon Yablonski Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Massive congrats Chris & team! I know I'm not alone in saying I owe a ton of gratitude to this amazing resource. It's been a significant influence and source of inspiration over the years -- it's practically where I learned how to code! Looking forward to seeing it continue to be invaluable for web builders all around the world. Reply 47. Gabrielle Wee Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 CSS Tricks was there for me when I was first learning how to code. I couldn't have gotten to where I am without it! Thanks and congrats to Chris and the team Reply 48. Richard Felix Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats, Chris! I remember way back when when you started this blog. What an awesome resource it's become. Couldn't have happened to a better person! Reply 49. Jacob Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 I attribute much of the success of my early career (and therefore my entire career) to this website, and Chris in particular. Chris, your accessible, pragmatic, and humble style helped me build the confidence to take on new and exciting challenges. Thank you for everything. Reply 50. John Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Chris, friends, and family; you have created one of the best resources for front end web development ever. I'm very early on in this journey and I've already learnt so much from you. Thank you, and congratulations! Reply 51. Mehdi Achour Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations Chris and the team, this is well deserved! Reply 52. Felix Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 CSS Tricks has been my goto resource for many years, congrats Chris! Reply 53. Lvdesign Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Bravo et respect pour votre site toujours source de connaissance et de reflexion pour un meilleur web. bonne suite a vous chris Reply 54. Marco Hengstenberg Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Thanks for fifteen years of pushing the good web forward <3 Thanks for fifteen years of being one of the best resources on web development things <3 Reply 55. Tim Smith Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 I've really always admired how you go about things Chris. I'm so happy for you! I hope the step back gives you the time and energy for the things you want. Wishing you all the best! Reply 56. swyx Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 I cannot express how happy I am for you and the team Chris. You folks deserve all the moneybags for what you have done for the industry. Please remember us when you buy your own island or something Reply 57. Jon McLaren Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Hey Chris and all of the CSS-Tricks contributors, congrats on the sale. Thank you all for all of the amazing work you've done in sharing your knowledge and expertise. CSS-Tricks has been a foundational part of my growing in my career, and a longtime source of inspiration. Is ShopTalk Show part of this acquisition or are you and Dave going to continue running that? Reply + Chris Coyier Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Is ShopTalk Show part of this acquisition or are you and Dave going to continue running that? Not a part. We'll keep truckin' along with that over on https://shoptalkshow.com/ and the YouTube stuff has it's own home now https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UC0z_y1EirBhSQN96P4foZ1A 58. Juan Pablo Gomez Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats Chris!! Bookmarking this page, not just because of how much your work has helped me level up, but because it will someday become a UX Case study: How do you build a Comment Section with thousands of replies. [?] godspeed Reply 59. Nick Santini Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congratulations! I've been using CSS Tricks for over 10 years now and if it wasn't for all the awesome content that allowed me to learn and grow I don't think I would still be working in the industry. I really owe you one Chris! Reply 60. welcomebrand Permalink to comment# March 15, 2022 Congrats Chris, So pleased for you and thank you for so many years of exceptional quality content. I always figured when you Google a problem or look something up, if it's got your avatar next to it on the results page it was always as good as a "verified correct" result! Enjoy the new projects Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. 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