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Sass and Compass for Designers

By : Ben Frain
Book Image

Sass and Compass for Designers

By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Sass and Compass for Designers
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Parting shots


Now that we have looked at how to quality check our style sheets and performed some testing to make it more performant, let's bring things back to Sass and Compass. Grasshopper, before we say 'sayonara', I'd like to remind you that getting the most out of Sass and Compass isn't about employing every single feature at every single opportunity. After all, it's supposed to make authoring style sheets easier and more enjoyable.

Therefore, when using it for the first time on a live project, only use the things that actually help you. Don't worry if writing a mixin to produce a certain set of styles doesn't work straight off the bat. Enjoy the things that help right away. Perhaps it's as simple as defining all the project's colors as variables, or simply producing cross-vendor CSS effortlessly with some existing Compass mixins. Grow your confidence in wielding Sass and Compass to make life easier first and foremost and then throw in the extra ingredients (loops, globbing, sprites...