When I set out to learn programming in early 2012 in order to build Uncover, I was primarily focused on learning Ruby on Rails. When I thought about what programming was to me, it was always about being able to …Continue reading
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about JavaScript Design Patterns and CSS Windows. Here are the links for the week: JavaScript Patterns http://shichuan.github.io/javascript-patterns/ Crocodoc http://blog.crocodoc.com/post/46369766700/3d-ifying-documents-using-css-transforms windows http://nick-jonas.github.io/windows/ csscss by zmoazeni http://zmoazeni.github.io/csscss/?hn=1 …Continue reading
I recently wrote an article on creating a themable button set with Sass where I used a mixin to define all base styles, then a color value was passed as an argument when included in each theme. Example: @mixin btn-theme($btn-color) …Continue reading
An HTML5 feature that had the web community abuzz with excitement a couple of years ago was the placeholder attribute for displaying placeholder text in input fields. Now that it’s widely supported by modern browsers, there is a lot more we …Continue reading
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about CSS and Frameworks w/ special guest Ryan Carson. Here are the links for the week: Hint.css http://kushagragour.in/lab/hint/ Using the main element http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2013/the-main-element/ Groundwork CSS …Continue reading
Lots of frontend web developers have been getting interested in dynamic interfaces using motion effects. This is all too common with many advancements within popular JavaScript libraries. But there has also been a lot of interest in CSS3 animated effects. …Continue reading
I get asked a lot about the CSS box-sizing property, especially from beginning designers and developers who’ve dealt with broken layouts and misaligned grids. The CSS box model can be a little deceiving and tricky to work with at times, …Continue reading
The trouble with the word “grid” begins and ends with edges. A page in a book, a broadsheet newspaper or the back of a napkin — regardless of format, print design can count on two known values: Width and height. But …Continue reading
If you have yet to give Sass a try, don’t worry, this is a good place to start. And if you haven’t already read Andrew’s primer on Sass, give it a read for a better understanding of what we’ll be …Continue reading
What is Sass? Sass stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets Sass, and was created by Hampton Catlin. It’s a way to simplify your CSS workflow, making development and maintenance tasks easier. For instance, have you ever had to do a find-and-replace …Continue reading
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Smells Like Bakin' is a cupcake company in need of a website. This project will walk us through the basics of HTML and CSS from the very beginning. HTML and CSS are the structural and presentational building blocks of every website and will serve as the foundation for any web project.
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