Archive for July, 2014

Preprocessing is for Everybody

Saturday, July 19th, 2014

Preprocessing is for Everybody by Chris Coyier

“You’ve heard about CSS preprocessors. If you have yet to take the dive or have only dipped your toes in, let Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks, Codepen) convince you that you won’t regret it. Have you met resistance? Let’s try and convince your boss and colleagues. There may be some misconceptions going around that we need to nip in the bud. Then we’ll look at how preprocessors fit into the modern web development workflow, the evolving best practices for using them, and how to squeeze out all the benefit we can get from them.” – An Event Apart Video

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Responsive Images

Sunday, July 13th, 2014

The following video is from the post Responsive Images using <picture> and srcset/sizes – by Matt Steele

Big heavy images are responsible for most of the bloat on a responsive website, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s the latest HTML elements you can use to keep your images small, and your site lean & fast. – Matt Steele

Reference: Srcset and sizes

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Features of Compass

Thursday, July 10th, 2014

“Compass is an open-source CSS Authoring Framework.” – Compass

“Compass can do some really handy tasks like measuring images from the filesystem and writing them into your stylesheets. Asset URL functions are available that make it easy to move assets around in a project or even switch to a content delivery network (CDN) without having to rewrite your stylesheets. Compass can even combine a directory of images into a single sprite image and do the otherwise tedious task of calculating coordinates and writing the spriting CSS for you.” – Sass and Compass in Action (Manning)

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