My thoughts on LESS

I’ve started using LESS a few months ago on a few projects. LESS allows you to extend the way you write CSS, letting you use variables, nested selectors, operations and mixins. It sounds great — and it is great — but there are a few things that can make it work against you. These are…… Continue reading My thoughts on LESS

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Books: “HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions”

The second book I’m reviewing is “HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions”, by web standardistas Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson. What is the book about? The book provides the reader with a foundation in how to markup and style a web site — the right way. In the authors’ own words this book is “a…… Continue reading Books: “HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions”

A quick note about the :empty pseudo-class

I’m in love with the simplicity that CSS3 selectors can bring to our stylesheets. Here’s a brief explanation of one of my favourites: the :empty pseudo-class. What is the :empty pseudo-class Here is the definition taken from the W3C Selectors Level 3 specification: The :empty pseudo-class represents an element that has no children at all.…… Continue reading A quick note about the :empty pseudo-class

Clients aren’t stupid

The first time I came across the Clients From Hell website I laughed and sympathised with the poor designers that had sent those quotes in. I’m not laughing now though. Just an example The website mentioned above is just an example of something we tend to do frequently: make the client sound stupid, like he…… Continue reading Clients aren’t stupid

WordPress: flexible pages lists with the extended page list plugin

WordPress is quite versatile and easy to use, but it seems to fail in some features that should be present at its core, like the ability to list pages’ content easier. Here’s an explanation of how to use a little plugin I found recently, and that doesn’t seem to be that widely known or documented.…… Continue reading WordPress: flexible pages lists with the extended page list plugin