I stumbled upon a quick video on YouTube on how to use the CSS3 grayscale filter when hovering on an image. The results can be seen via this Codepen CSS3 Grayscale Filter Click on the CSS tab in the Codepen example above to see how this filter effect can be implemented in your CSS. "Method … Continue reading CSS3 Grayscale Filter
Category: CSS
Preprocessing is for Everybody
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 … Continue reading Preprocessing is for Everybody
Features of Compass
"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 … Continue reading Features of Compass
Learning Sass
What is Sass? "Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that’s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets." - Sass To install … Continue reading Learning Sass
Sass, Command Line and a Firewall
After a year off from work (I was on maternity leave) I'm finally getting a chance to catch up on what I've missed from the Web Development community. One of which is CSS Preprocessors which has been around for a few years now. I won't go into the details to describe what it is so … Continue reading Sass, Command Line and a Firewall
