Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

CSS Hat translates layer styles to CSS3 code. Oh my, you Photoshop guys are going to love this.

SASS vs. LESS | CSS-Tricks. I’m also often asked “which is better?” when it comes to LESS and Sass. I started working with Sass roughly a year ago as I was a holdout for some time. At first I simply assumed (like many) that it only worked with Ruby on Rails projects. I was quickly [...]

CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering | Onextrapixel – Web Design & Development Online Magazine. In contrast to a more high level approach to organizing and implementing CSS, this article looks at the nitty gritty performance enhancements and bottlenecks you may be dealing with. Performance is always of high concern when engineering the [...]

The single responsibility principle applied to CSS — CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts. It is so awesome to see the resurgence in knowledgable contributions to the discussion of CSS. Not just the latest preprocessor or newest CSS3 snippet, but honest-to-goodness foundational concepts of CSS implementation. CSS is super powerful, and [...]

Css2Less. I really like the educational value of this tool. While I don’t see it necessarily as a utility to come back to and use repeatedly, I think it’s a really great way to introduce LESS to someone who has never worked with it before.

Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Cross-Browser Debugging CSS. This is really a fantastic workflow that’s worth a quick review even for the seasoned front end developers. Browser consistency is surely a focal point for front end Web development but as you progress and build more sites, it should become less of a pain point. CSS [...]

CSS Scroll Effects. Quite a slick proof of concept here. Eight eye candy scrolling animations powered by CSS. Go ahead and scroll the lists. Neat stuff!

CSS text-transform updated for the Dutch language!. Localization is often something that flies under our radar, I think. It’s somewhat rare that our projects have any sort of translation requirements, but when they do we often panic. I know it’s always the last thing I think about when building WordPress Plugins, but localization is essential [...]

New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping | Impressive Webs. Type is an interesting segment of front end development. It’s always felt like an untamed beast, but that’s gotten better over the past couple of years with the adoption of @font-face and the number of foundries now offering Web fonts. While that handles [...]

CSSrefresh – automatically refresh CSS files. This is a neat little script you can use during development that might make your life easier. It’s sole responsibility is to refresh the CSS of your site at the time the stylesheet is saved, preventing you from having to refresh the browser to see a style update. Check [...]