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Maintaining CSS code on a website with multiple themes can really be quite a handful, especially if there is more than one person working on the project at the same time.
It so happens that one of the projects I’m involved with requires multiple themes, and there is than one person working on the codes. Because of this, I needed make sure that the styles are coded in a way that they’re easy to understand and change.
Here’s an article on my thoughts on organizing theme styles.
Its tough to create forms that are both clean and have great user experience at the same time.
In an effort to make forms look nicer visually, designers and developers have sacrificed usability by replacing field labels with placeholders. I’ve been guilty of that as well.
There has been a new convention lately. The Float Label Pattern introduced by Matt D. Smith for an iOS app spread like wildfire and almost everyone is using it now.
I’ll like to introduce an implementation of my own, and talk about how I came to create this.
I wrote about a hacky fix on using the built in Autoprefixer in Codekit 2 with Compass. The article alone wouldn’t have been very helpful if you didn’t know what was autoprefixer and compass.
This article tries to help you with understanding what Compass and Autoprefixer does.
Codekit 2 is a great compiler built for Mac. It helps you to quickly compile languages like Sass without going through the command line.
One awesome new feature in Codekit 2 is the built in support for autoprefixer. Sadly, Codekit 2 currently does not allow the use of autoprefixer with Compass due to technical difficulties.
But not all is lost if you still want to use certain Compass modules with Codekit 2.
I’ve managed to find a way and I’d love to share that with you in this post.
Sometimes, there is a need to repeatedly declare new layouts as a project goes along. As more layouts gets declared, it can get quite difficult to manage and change these layouts when the need arises.
Because of this, I’ve been toying with the idea of consolidating different kinds of layouts into a sass map and calling the maps with Susy. Thankfully, I managed to hit onto something decent recently. This post shares my method for organizing layouts with Susy
There are times where you might want to use grids that break that certain points instead of using a fully fluid grid. Susy lets you do that easily as well. But first, you’ll need to do a few quick configurations to get that to work.
We went through the very basics of Susy 2 and how it could be used to quickly create very complicated layouts in the previous tutorial on Susy. In this tutorial, we’re going to dive deeper into Susy, and explore how it can be used to develop responsive websites easily.
Susy is a helper tool that lets you created ultra customizable grids on the fly easily.
Its been a while since Susy 2 is officially released. If you loved Susy 1, you will definitely love to use Susy 2 because it offers so much more flexibility.
This is a two part tutorial for Susy 2, and in this tutorial, I will be sharing with you how to create the Complex AG Grid with Susy 2.
Custom fonts changes how typography looks on your website. Using the correct font can be a super big impact on how your website feels to visitors.
You will have to rely on the @font-face if you want to use a custom font that is not hosted in any webfont service.
In this post, I’ll share how to add your custom font to your website using the @font-face rule.
Along with it, I’ll also share how to make slight adjustments to the generated css properties so you can easily use them on your website.
This is a continuation of the series on learning to write HTML for an actual website for the first time. We have looked at how to write html structure for the big picture with wrappers in the previous section, and we will be diving into the smaller details in this section.