LessCSS Presentation @ April 2015 GTALUG Meeting

The document summarizes Hiroki Tani's presentation at the QCon Tokyo 2014 conference on modern CSS architecture. Some key points discussed include: - Adopting modular approaches like OOCSS and SMACSS to separate structure from skin/style and improve maintainability. - Using techniques like BEM naming to further decouple CSS from HTML. - Developing reusable CSS modules and components with flexible modifiers. - Maintaining styleguides and pattern libraries for consistent front-end development.

This document provides an introduction to using CSS3 properties like rounded corners, drop shadows, transforms, and transitions. It includes code examples for applying rounded corners, unevenly rounded corners, drop shadows, inset shadows, text shadows, color properties like RGB, HSL, and transitions. Transform properties demonstrated include translate, scale, and transform-origin. The final example shows how to create a circle with shadow.

The document describes several templating languages and preprocessors for HTML, CSS, and front-end development including Haml, Jade, LESS, SASS, and Bourbon. It provides code examples to demonstrate features like variables, nesting, mixins, imports and more. These tools can be used to make HTML, CSS, and template files more concise, reusable and maintainable.

This document contains the code for a customizable Tumblr theme. It includes default variables for colors, images, text, and links. It also includes CSS styling for layout, typography, and other design elements. The theme is fully responsive and uses fixed positioning for elements like the sidebar, title, and navigation. When implemented, this code would generate a blog with the specified styling and functionality.

The document discusses using HTML and CSS for prototyping. It covers HTML5 elements and structures, CSS3 features like gradients and shadows, and integrating HTML5 shiv and Modernizer to support older browsers. Recommendations include using semantic HTML5 elements instead of divs, updating reset styles, and simple jQuery examples. The goal is to leverage modern web standards for interactive prototyping.

The document discusses using HTML and CSS for prototyping. It provides guidance on setting expectations and only prototyping necessary features. HTML5 semantic tags and structures are covered, along with tips for styling buttons and forms with CSS3 features like gradients, shadows and rounded corners. The document also addresses browser compatibility issues and includes resources for further information.

Jake Smith gave a presentation on LESS, a dynamic CSS language that allows variables, mixins, nesting, and other features to make CSS more maintainable. LESS compiles to regular CSS and can be used with the LESS.js library in browsers or a LESS compiler. Some key features of LESS discussed include variables, imports, nesting rules, mixins, and namespacing. Gotchas with LESS include limitations with media queries and transitions.

CSS Processors have continually increased in usage for years. New tools and ways of automating styles have emerged along with mature tools establishing themselves into our workflow. With this, it’s easy to get lost among these tools. This talk will help to give a gentle introduction to stylesheets processors (pre and post) - what they do, how they help you and how to use them.

Many web sites have moved away from table based layouts to CSS. But what about the longer term? Is you CSS efficient, maintainable and modular? Find out about taking your CSS to the next level.

CSS met Less :: Hoe begin ik? - een presentatie gegeven door Hans Kuijpers tijdens Joomladagen 2013 te Woudschoten, Zeist. #jd13nl De eerste keer werken met CSS gaf me dezelfde kriebels als nu werken met LESS. Het maakt je leven zo veel makkelijker!

This document discusses browser compatibility and strategies for supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6. It addresses common layout issues in IE6 like the double margin bug and float containers. It also provides techniques for conditional comments, CSS hacks, frameworks and tools. The document then covers new technologies like HTML5 video, geolocation, CSS3 features and strategies for mobile browsers.

Gmail is described as an email service that is intuitive, efficient, and useful, with 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. The document includes stylesheets that define the layout and appearance of buttons, inputs, and other interface elements on Gmail's website.

This document discusses CSS preprocessors like Sass, LESS, and Stylus. It provides examples of features like variables, nesting, mixins, and functions. Variables allow defining colors and values that can be reused. Nesting allows writing CSS rules for child elements within parent selectors. Mixins help avoid repetitive code through reusable rulesets. Functions and operations allow performing calculations to generate values. CSS preprocessors help write CSS faster and maintain large stylesheets through abstraction and organization.

An overview of the CSS preprocessor LESS. Including code samples for creating mixins, variables, math, colors, patterns, guards, scope, and namespaces.

The document is a slideshow presentation about CSS architecture techniques. It discusses object-oriented CSS (OOCSS), block element modifier (BEM), CSS preprocessor extensions of BEM, responsive design patterns, style guide generators, specificity graphs, critical path CSS extraction, and the potential of web components. The presentation emphasizes building modular, reusable CSS components and establishing consistent CSS methodologies and architectures.

This document summarizes and compares CSS preprocessor tools Sass and LESS. Both tools allow for variables, mixins, nested rules and other features to aid in writing CSS in a more modular way. Sass uses the SCSS syntax which is a CSS superset, while LESS uses its own syntax. Both compile to plain CSS. The Compass framework is also mentioned, which builds on Sass and provides reusable components and a workflow for building CSS.

The document provides code snippets for HTML tags and CSS classes used to structure pages and components. It includes HTML for page containers, headers, breadcrumbs, left widgets, and content areas. It also includes common CSS classes for styling text, positioning, spacing and more. Finally, it outlines best practices for organizing CSS/JS files and setting image paths.

Google App Engine allows users to develop and run web applications on Google's infrastructure without having to manage servers. It provides automatic scaling, a data store based on BigTable, user authentication through Google accounts, and scheduled tasks. Applications run in a secure sandbox and are only able to access other computers through HTTP and email. The SDK allows local development and testing before deploying apps to Google's servers from Windows or Mac computers.

The document provides instructions for creating a PHP extension module that wraps the libares asynchronous DNS resolving library. It begins by explaining why such an extension is useful and covers generating an extension skeleton, configuring the build system to find libares, the key C API functions to expose, and the basic anatomy of a PHP extension.

The document discusses revision control and the Mercurial revision control system. It provides an overview of revision control, describes how to install and use basic Mercurial commands like init, add, commit, status, log, diff, tag, push, pull, and serve. It also discusses configuring external diff tools and the .hgignore file.

Django is a Python-based web framework that allows for rapid development of complex, database-driven websites. It was developed by a newspaper company and released publicly in 2005 under a BSD license. Django aims to reduce duplication through reusability of code and components like its model-template-view architecture, administration interface, authentication system, and generic class-based views. It includes features like pluggable applications, deployment options via WSGI or mod_python, and scalability.

The document discusses the importance for businesses to have an online presence and manage their online reputation. It recommends that businesses (1) register on all review sites and social networks to look accessible to customers, (2) have their own website to control their online search results, and (3) give away their expertise for free through content instead of traditional advertising which people dislike. Maintaining an online presence helps businesses respond to customer feedback and introduces prospective customers to accurate information about the company.

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, schema-free document-oriented database accessible via RESTful HTTP/JSON API. It provides features like replication with bi-directional conflict detection/resolution and queryable/indexable documents using JavaScript views. Each record is stored as a document with flexible structure. CouchDB embraces REST and uses JSON, avoiding complexity of XML. It allows querying and indexing documents with JavaScript and supports features like distributed architecture and replication between nodes.

The document provides an overview of HTML5 and its new features. It begins by explaining that HTML5 is not a programming language and is mainly used to write web pages. It then discusses how browsers have become application platforms, prompting the need to adopt HTML5. The document outlines some of the major new features in HTML5, including semantic elements like header and nav, new input types, geolocation, local storage, offline web applications, and video playback. It also addresses questions around the future of Flash and which companies are pushing adoption of HTML5.

How to Turn a Pile of Python Files Into an Open Source Project. You have written some Python code, you think it would be useful to the world, and you would like to give back to the open source world. But where do you start? This talk will give you some guidance on how you can release your project

CSS is a style sheet language used to determine the formatting of HTML documents. It separates the presentation of HTML elements from the document's structure and semantics. The key benefits of CSS include separation of concerns, cascade of rules, specificity of selector types, and the ability to control layout, colors, fonts and other stylistic aspects of HTML documents. The document provides an overview of CSS fundamentals including the anatomy of style sheets, applying styles via selectors, shorthand properties, and specificity which determines which styles get applied based on an element's selector types and order of rules.

CSS is a style sheet language used to determine the formatting of HTML documents. It separates the presentation of HTML elements from the document's structure and semantics. The key benefits of CSS include separation of concerns, cascading style sheets, and selector-based rules. CSS fundamentals include the anatomy of style sheets with selectors, declarations, and properties. Specificity rules determine which styles take precedence when multiple selectors apply to an element.

CSS is a style sheet language used to determine the formatting of HTML documents. It separates the presentation of HTML elements from the document's structure and semantics. The key benefits of CSS include separation of concerns, cascade of rules, specificity of selector types, and the ability to control layout, colors, fonts and other stylistic aspects of HTML documents. The document provides an overview of CSS fundamentals including the anatomy of style sheets, how rules are applied based on selector types and specificity, and formatting techniques.

The document provides examples of CSS code to create different types of navigation bars, including vertical, horizontal, and fixed navigation bars. It shows how to style links, add backgrounds, remove bullets from lists, center align links, and indicate the active link. Code samples are provided to create navigation bars that float links left or right, add borders, and change link colors on hover or when active. The document is a reference for using CSS to style navigation bars in different ways.

This document contains the code for a customizable Tumblr theme. It includes default styles and variables that can be modified through the Appearance settings on Tumblr. The theme supports posts with different content types and includes navigation, sidebar links, pagination, and instructions to credit the original creator if customizing the theme.

Curious to know what this CSS3 hype is all about? Visit this presentation to learn that it isn't just a hype. CSS3 adds awesome new capabilities to a front-end developer's palette of tools to create a beautiful (and functional) website. Learn more about several of the best new options that CSS3 is giving us, the current level of browser support for CSS3, and lots of useful resources to keep yourself up-to-date and learn more. If you want to learn how to style your website using CSS3, then this is a presentation you don't want to miss!

Sass and Compass allow for more powerful CSS authoring by adding features like variables, nested rules, mixins and functions. This allows stylesheets to be written in a more modular, maintainable and scalable way. Sass code is compiled to normal CSS for browser rendering. Key features demonstrated include variables for consistent values, nesting to reduce selector complexity, mixins for reusable code snippets, and Compass libraries for common CSS3 features and responsive design.

The document provides an overview of the history and development of CSS3 and recommendations for using CSS3 features. It discusses: - The origins of CSS dating back to 1993 with the proposal of named stylesheets and the creation of CSS1 in 1994. - That CSS3 was first mentioned in 1999 but many features were not usable until much later as support by browsers evolved. - Recommendations to use CSS3 features progressively and not on critical layers initially to ensure compatibility, prioritizing performance, and only enhancing websites once they work for older browsers. - Numerous code examples demonstrating CSS3 features like rounded corners, shadows, gradients, animations and transitions that can provide visual enhancements when supported