CSS - Peter Keating

Using CSSCSS with Grunt

This week a useful tool named CSSCSS popped up on my radar. Built by Zach Moazeni, CSSCSS is a Ruby gem that analyzes CSS and outputs selectors with matching rules. Currently at version 1.2.0, Zach's tool is great for highlighting areas of

Ant

Walking Skeleton for Web Applications

When beginning a new project at Moov2 we always kick off with a meeting to discuss tasks to be done for the first phase. The first task added to our task management process is always "Create a Walking Skeleton". I came across

Sass

Refactoring Sass for my Blog

Over the last couple of weeks I have been refactoring the Sass used to create the CSS for my blog. The original Sass for my blog was my first excursion into Sass and persuaded me to choose it over Less. Since it was my

Web Performance

Reducing HTTP Requests for Images using CSS Sprites

When developing websites nowadays there is a lot more to think about than the appearance, content and user interface. Performance should be one of the primary concerns for developers with the rise of mobile browsing giving more varied contexts for users visiting a website.

Sass

Giving Sass a go!

For the re-design of my blog I decided to give Less a backseat, letting Sass take the spotlight. Not familiar with Less or Sass? In a nutshell they're known as preprocessors that give CSS more dynamic features such as functions, variables and a whole

CSS

Setting up my LESS Environment for CSS

Whenever I get my hands dirty with CSS, I always use LESS to assist. If you're not familiar with LESS then their own description summarizes it well. LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both