While creating a prototype for a project (using Bootstrap), I added the Jumbotron component which is described as: “a lightweight, flexible component that can optionally extend the entire viewport to showcase key content on your site” and found that my background image wasn’t responsive at all.
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CSS3 Background-Image
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014CSS3 Grayscale Filter
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014I 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 of applying filter effects (like blur, grayscale, brightness, contrast and hue) to elements, previously only possible by using SVG.” – Can I Use
“It’s worth noting that right now, CSS Filter Effects are an unoffical specification – however, the editors of the spec include representatives from Adobe, Apple and Opera, and we have already got implementations in Chrome, Safari and iOS 6.” – CSS3 Filters
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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)
Learning Sass
Friday, June 27th, 2014What 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 Sass, read the official Sass guide or if you’re trying to install Sass at your workplace and have issues due to your network firewall, read my previous blog post.
There are numerous ways to compile Sass. There’s the Command Line/Terminal or GUI’s such as Koala, Scout, Prepos and Codekit. Read the official Sass guide on the best way to compile your Sass to CSS.
Using Yeoman in your workflow
Sunday, June 1st, 2014There are tonnes of web development tools to help front-end developers these days that it can start to become overwhelming. I know I was! (Not gonna lie!). So before we begin, I thought I would go through some of the steps of using Yeoman in my web development workflow.
First you’ll need to get a clear picture on what you’d like to achieve and what your end result will be. For me, I wanted to re-design an existing static website to make it responsive (more about RWD on a future blog post).
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