A question: if you had the choice of three websites: one static, one with badly done animation, and one which has been enhanced with subtle use of animation, which would you choose? Well, my hope is the answer to that question should be number three: animation can really make a site stand out if done well, or fail miserably if done badly!
So far, our content has been relatively static, save for the use of media queries. It's time, though, to take a look at how PostCSS can help make animating content a little easier. We'll begin with a quick recap on the basics of animation, before exploring the route to moving away from pure animation, through to SASS, and finally, across to PostCSS. We will cover a number of topics throughout this chapter, which will include:
A recap on the use of jQuery to animate content:
Switching to CSS-based animation
Exploring the use of pre-built libraries such as
Animate.cssExploring the options available when making the change to using...