In this chapter, we've used some of the many and varied helpers and mixins of Compass to significantly improve the aesthetics of our test project. We've created an image sprite, made data URIs, background gradients, shadows, and a whole lot more.

Hopefully, you are already realizing how much easier these tools and techniques can make your style sheet authoring. Remember, for the full list of Compass helpers and mixins, you can consult the Compass documentation at http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/.

In the next chapter, we'll concentrate on trying to make our existing code DRYer (a programming acronym for Don't Repeat Yourself), focusing on how we can use the programmatic power that Sass affords, to generate repetitive code more easily.

We shouldn't let words such as 'programmatic' and 'logic' worry us, though. We can totally do this!