November 29, 2013 in Learn
Learn Sass on Treehouse
We’re really excited to announce our new course on Sass! Sass is a powerful language that extends CSS with handy features like nesting, variables, mixins, math operations, and more, in a CSS-compatible syntax. Because of this, many of today’s popular…
August 6, 2013 in Learn
JavaScript diagramming, SASS, HTML5 Elements – Treehouse Show Ep 51
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about the latest in web design, web development, html5, front end development, and more. Here are the links for the week: Macaw | The code-savvy…
July 18, 2013 in Learn
CSS Tip: A Better Clearfix with Sass
The CSS clearfix has been a must-have in our web design toolkit for quite some time and, until new layout features like flexbox become more stable, we’ll always need some form of clearfix in float based layouts. There are several…
June 18, 2013 in Learn
HTML5 Features, Responsive CSS Modules and Sass – Treehouse Show Ep 44
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about HTML5 Features, Responsive CSS Modules and Sass. Here are the links for the week: Movies in Color http://moviesincolor.com/ 5 HTML5 Features you need to…
April 15, 2013 in Learn
Extending Placeholder Selectors with Sass
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)…
January 29, 2013 in Learn
Create a Themable Button Set with Sass
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…
January 16, 2013 in Learn
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Sass
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…
October 20, 2011 in Learn
The Importance of Compass & Sass: An Interview With Brandon Mathis
This week, ahead of his upcoming session and workshop at The Future of Web Design NYC 2011, we caught up with Compass & Sass fan Brandon Mathis! Q1. Hey Brandon! We’re so pleased that you’re joining us at FOWD NYC…
August 26, 2011 in Learn
Episode #32: Sass & LESS, the new CSS?
This week we are joined by Greg who talks us through the basics of Sass, Compass and LESS and explains how how he uses them in his front end development projects. Links from the Show Twitter Bootstrap Sass LESS Compass…
February 23, 2011 in Learn
SASS CSS Framework Tutorial
In this 7 minute video, you’ll get an overview of SASS, a tool that allows you to write CSS more easily. You’ll also walk through the process of installing SASS. This video is from Think Vitamin Membership, a high-quality video training…
September 29, 2018 in Learn
React, Angular, Vue: What they can do and which one is for you
Selecting a front end JavaScript framework can be a difficult, confusing process. React and Angular — now there’s this new thing called Vue? You don’t have time to learn all three. So, how do you choose?
March 8, 2018 in Learn
Clean Up Your Code with Modular CSS
CSS. It’s a web designer’s playpen. With so many colors, type settings, layout options, and responsive possibilities, it’s easy to turn a stylesheet into a million line nightmare. However, with a few simple actions you can clean up the mess…