Mixins for Semi-Transparent Colors
November 18th, 2013
Learn how to use Sass color functions to calculate backwards compatible colors for browsers that don't support alpha transparency and wrap up this functionality in a couple of handy mixins.
John W. Long
Managing Editor / UX Designer
The Author, John W. Long
John W. Long is the Managing Editor of The Sass Way as well as a designer, hacker and a UX Designer at UserVoice. John is the creator of Radiant CMS and Serve.
Connect with John on Twitter at @johnwlong.
Modular CSS Typography
November 9th, 2013
Learn how to modularize your typography to create solid foundation for your projects. Use multiple classes and the @extend directive to create a reusable set of typographical styles.
Modular CSS naming conventions
August 31th, 2013
The more you write your own stylesheets, the more you begin to value using good names in your code. Naming is by far one the most difficult and debated activities of a developer. To many, naming is an art form.
Modular CSS, an example
August 6th, 2013
If avoiding nested selectors in favor of a flatter class-based CSS scares you, maybe this example will help you embrace some of the principles of modular CSS.
Avoid nested selectors for more modular CSS
May 24th, 2013
We've written before about the dangers of nesting your CSS selectors too deeply. The Inception Rule is a good one for getting you to avoid some mangled CSS selectors. But there's actually a lot of benefit to taking this concept a couple of steps farther. What happens when you avoid nesting for almost all of your major selectors?
How to structure a Sass project
April 3th, 2013
One of the coolest features of crafting CSS with Sass is that you can build out a file structure that puts all your components in their right place. BUT the question is ... where is the right place? Is there a standard way to structure your Sass files?
A Standard Module Definition for Sass
March 26th, 2012
One part suggestion to the Sass community to adopt a standard way of structuring Sass modules and one part show and tell. John attempts to leverage his knowledge of large Sass projects to suggest a format for a Standard Module Definition for Sass.
Interactive Sass: Having Fun On The Terminal
November 22th, 2011
Most people who use Sass are familiar to some degree with the command line. While programs like Compass.app and Scout.app are making it easier to use Sass and Compass without using the command line, hidden gems await those who are willing to do so.
Sass vs. SCSS: Which Syntax is Better?
September 12th, 2011
Since the creation of Sass, it has been plagued by many levels of controversy. It billed itself as "a better CSS" and added brand new features unheard of to CSS authors such as variables, nesting and mixins. Sass also introduced an entirely different indentation-oriented syntax and a brand new perspective on how to author CSS. Then the SCSS syntax (Sassy CSS) was introduced ...
Leveraging Sass Mixins for Cleaner Code
August 28th, 2011
Without question, one of the most powerful and valuable features of Sass is the ability to package up existing code into reusable chunks of code called mixins.
