# Rachel Andrew (@rachelandrew.co.uk)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/rachelandrew.co.uk
Headline: Developer content lead for Chrome, writing team manager, CSS Working Group member.
Location: Haltwhistle, England, United Kingdom

## About

I lead developer content for Chrome at Google, managing a timezone-distributed team of writers embedded within Chrome Developer Relations and driving content strategy, operations, and AI-enabled workflows for web.dev and developer.chrome.com. I'm a dedicated leader of a high-performing team that produces technically rigorous, high-impact documentation covering the web platform and Chrome browser.

With over 20 years in web development and web standards advocacy, I bring deep technical expertise to content leadership. I am a member of the W3C CSS Working Group, co-edit the CSS Multi-column Layout and Page Floats specifications, and have authored or co-authored 22 books on web technologies. I also speak regularly at conferences worldwide, helping advance both the web platform and the craft of developer documentation.

## Experience

- **Author of Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website using Dreamweaver 8 at Sitepoint** (2005 – 2005)
  Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8 will teach you how to design Web pages the right way. You'll find out how you can exploit the new features in Dreamweaver 8 to build Websites that are fully compliant with industry standards.
- **Senior Staff Technical Writer (Manager III) at Google** (2024 – present)
  I lead developer content for Chrome, primarily publishing to web.dev and developer.chrome.com, as the manager of a team of technical writers embedded in Chrome Developer Relations. The role also involves planning a strategy for ensuring new APIs are documented, not just on our own sites but in collaboration with the Mozilla team to contribute to MDN.
  
  I'm a key contributor to the work on Baseline, the project to clarify availability of web features across all major engines.
  
  In my role I'm able to use my deep knowledge of the web platform to help share information about what exists on the platform, but also to involve developers in decisions about the direction of the web platform.
  
  I am a member of the CSS Working Group on behalf of the Chrome team at Google, editing specifications and contributing to discussions.
- **Member at Web Standards Project** (2001 – 2013)
- **Governing and standing committee member at Open Web Docs** (2021 – 2025)
- **Staff Technical Writer and Manager of writers at Google** (2021 – 2024)
- **Owner at edgeofmyseat.com** (2001 – 2023)
  edgeofmyseat.com provides development service primarily for designers and design agencies who wish to outsource back-end web development.
- **Technical Writer at Mozilla** (2017 – 2021)
  I worked on CSS documentation for MDN, mostly documenting layout specifications.
- **Editor In Chief at Smashing Magazine** (2017 – 2020)
- **Technical Editor and writer at A List Apart** (2013 – 2019)
  I have written and also served as a technical editor for A List Apart.
- **Invited Expert to the CSS Working Group at W3C** (2016 – 2019)
- **Freelance Writer at Future Publishing** (2006 – 2018)
  I have written a number of articles for Net magazine.
- **Author of The CSS Anthology at Sitepoint** (2004 – 2004)
  ‘The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks’ provides you with tried and tested real-world solutions to your Web design problems.
  
  It’s the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS, with over 100 tutorials that'll show you how to gain more control over the appearance of your Web page fonts, create sophisticated Web page navigation controls, design for alternative browsing devices including smart phones and screen readers for the blind, and much more.
  
  The book teaches you to use best-practice coding styles and CSS 2.1 compliant code to ensure that your designs are easy to maintain and will continue to work well into the future.
- **Freelance writer at Imagine Publishing** (2006 – 2008)
  Freelance writer for Web Designer magazine
- **Co-Author of HTML Utopia Designing without tables using CSS - 2nd edition at Sitepoint** (2006 – 2006)
  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) deal with issues that HTML cannot handle. CSS is a powerful, flexible way to specify HTML formatting. It lets you separate the style and layout of your HTML from its content, allowing you to control the position, margins, spacing, fonts, colors, typefaces, and other aspects of a web document's elements without compromising its structure.
  
  This completely revised and expanded second edition includes new techniques for laying out your web pages using positional CSS, and makes crafting beautiful, accessible and maintainable websites a snap. First published in 2003, the first edition was considered to be the definitive guide to CSS
  \- a step-by-step, clearly written tutorial. The 2nd Edition revision and updates ensure it remains just as relevant to web developers today.
- **Freelance writer at Highbury Entertainment** (2004 – 2006)
  Writing web design and development articles for Practical Internet Web Designer and other titles.
- **Senior Web Developer at eaccountingplus** (2000 – 2001)
  Senior web developer working on portal sites for accounting firms. Leading a small UK team plus outsourced developers.
- **Webmaster at PropertyFinder** (2000 – 2000)

## Education

- **Edinburgh Napier University** — Master of Arts - MA, Journalism (2020 – 2021)

## Skills

- HTML5
- XML
- Information Architecture
- Databases
- Photography
- User Experience
- Web Standards
- Accessibility
- Strategic Planning
- Editing
- Software Development
- HTML
- Perl
- Agile Methodologies
- Web Development
- HTML 5
- ASP
- Writing
- Management
- CSS
- CMS
- Public Speaking
- Content Management
- Leadership
- PHP
- Content Strategy
- Developer Relations
- JavaScript
- Technical Writing
- Team Leadership
- XHTML
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Context Engineering
- Journalism
- Content Operations

## Projects

- **Grid by Example** — http://gridbyexample.com
  A collection of examples and videos to help you learn the new CSS Grid Layout specification.

## Publications

- Where’s the holistic AI productivity data? — rachelandrew.co.uk (https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/06/11/wheres-the-holistic-ai-productivity-data/)
- Joining the atmosphere — rachelandrew.co.uk (https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/05/31/joining-the-atmosphere/)
- Column: Managing Feature Requests — A List Apart (http://alistapart.com/column/managing-feature-requests)

## Volunteering

- Volunteer Speaker at The Prince's Trust

## Other profiles

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelandrew/
- website: https://rachelandrew.co.uk