Presentation to Dallas.rb on trends in creating CSS stylesheets using Sass, Compass, LessCSS, and xCSS and CSS frameworks like Blueprint and 960.gs.
In this screencast we'll cover using variables, mixins and operations with LESS while building the header for the 'Flitter' front end. Watch this screencast and more at TeachMeToCode.com
In this screencast we'll cover the basics of setting up a LESS file to compile into CSS as we provide an HTML front end to Flitter, a Ruby on Rails Twitter clone.
Compass is a stylesheet authoring tool that uses the Sass stylesheet language to make your stylesheets smaller and your web site easier to maintain. Compass provides ports of the best of breed css frameworks that you can use without forcing you to use their presentational class names. It’s a new way of thinking about stylesheets that must be seen in action!
The second part in which Eric Berry duplicates twitter. "Now that we have a backbone to our 'Flitter' application, we learn how to create the front end and tie it all together. In this screencast, I cover a lot of CSS and getting your site to look good."
Over time a CSS file can become large and filled with unused selectors. In this episode I show how to use the Deadweight gem to determine which CSS selects you can remove.