WWJNTOOHE (What Would Jesus Name This Object Oriented HTML Element)?
April 6, 2015 -I love CSS, and I really love OOCSS. To me being Object Oriented means two things: breaking down patterns, and using a clear easy-to-adopt naming... View Article
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Build it yourself.
July 5, 2014 -CSS Frameworks are amazing. The world has enough of them – but you should still make one more. If you write CSS for a living I’m... View Article
Faux-forking Bootstrap Grids
December 23, 2013 -I love digging into open source frameworks and adopting bits and bobs that can make my life easier! One of my favourites of late has... View Article
Emmet Livestyle
August 19, 2013 -This is too cool. Emmet Livestyle is a text editor package and browser extension that allow for two-way style edits (live updates from Sublime to... View Article
Starting class names with numbers
July 11, 2013 -I’m probably not the only one who learned the hard way that CSS (or JS) class names can’t start with a number. It’s just one... View Article
DRY CSS
July 8, 2013 -Don’t Repeat Yourself: http://csswizardry.com/2013/07/writing-dryer-vanilla-css/ This is a great post about writing more maintainable CSS. Great examples show that sometimes being DRY can mean more code.
Sublime Text + SASS + Ascii Art For the Win
June 13, 2013 -I wanted to share one of the coolest tricks I’ve started using in my SASS to help me get around my stylesheets a bit quicker.... View Article
Taming Retina CSS – Part 1
February 17, 2013 -I’ve recently been making use of the Retina Display Media Queries post on CSS Tricks to upgrade some of the graphics on a site I’ve been working... View Article
SMACSS Conference
January 23, 2013 -Yesterday fellow Thrillworker Ryan Bruce and I had the pleasure of attending the online SMACSS conference. Lots of nerdy CSS talk for me to get... View Article
Image Texture
August 31, 2012 -Graham Kennery showed me this… http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CSS3FullscreenSlideshow/index.html These images scale to browser size – this means that images can look pretty crappy when scaled up. But... View Article
CSS3 Patterns Gallery
July 4, 2012 -My mind was blown today by Lea Verou’s gallery of pure CSS backgrounds. At first I thought these were larger than using images, but I... View Article
Further Defence of Scoped CSS!
April 27, 2012 -It’s probably obvious where I stand on this topic: I was the author of CSS-Tricks post ‘Saving the Day with Scoped CSS‘, and I got an... View Article
HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling
April 24, 2012 -HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling Scoped CSS is getting a bit more coverage since my recent CSS-Tricks post, and today was featured on... View Article
Forget CSS3, CSS4 looks amazing!
April 19, 2012 -I’m trying to get more into CSS all the time. I’ve started perusing the w3.org site at times other than when I’m looking for a... View Article
Styling Style Block
April 12, 2012 -Did you know that the <style> tag is a block level element? It gets display:none by default. When you make it display it shows the... View Article