This is a blog about web development, design, and other musings by Una Kravets, Web Developer Advocate at Google. Check out her podcasts: Toolsday, The CSS Podcast, and web video series: Designing in the Browser too!
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Merry Gitmas: A Holiday Analogy About How Git Works
Analogies always help me with comprehension. And this one, explaining git, is holiday flavored!
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Use Sass 3.3 Maps to Make On-the-Fly Color Guides!
Last month, I wrote a little article about the new Sass 3.3 feature @root. Now, I want to focus on another sweet feature in Sass 3.3 — MAPS!
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My Online Sketchbook!
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Buttons: A Look at Module Mixins, Compass Color-Contrast, and Sass Boolean Functions
Recently, I’ve been coding websites via a modular approach — meaning, focusing on styling distinct (repeated) elements (like sidebars, buttons, entry fields, etc.), and reusing them throughout the page. You can use mixins to ensure this consistency and keep your code DRY.
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Shape: A Sass Mixin
CSS shapes are really fun, and making images out of them is awesome! We see shapes being used everywhere on the web these days, from icons to navigation to tooltips.