Simple Grid Mixins
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Grid systems can be quite complicated. 960.gs, the mother of all grid systems, contains over 600 lines of code! And it's one of the simpler pure-CSS grid systems...
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Thoughts on CSS Frameworks
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Developers use Foundation or Bootstrap unnecessarily, and they don't know what the output of their CSS code is. I will try to explain my viewpoint about these kinds of frameworks, what their flaws are, and when might be a good time to use them...
Fixed and Fluid Columns
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We can create a "one column fixed and one column fluid" layout using various techniques, but most of these solutions are hacky and have flaws such as magic numbers, hard coded values, and so on...
Spriting with Sass and Compass
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As web developers have become more concerned about browser performance a technique called “image spriting” has emerged that is designed to reduce the number of requests made to the server. As it turns out, fewer requests made the server (when there is no significant difference in the combined size of the files delivered) can make a big difference in how fast a page appears to download...