Group items tagged

A collection of controversial articles about CSS HTML preprocessors and frameworks and their role in the modern web design and front-end development: opinions, thoughts, and case studies.

To extend the capabilities of CSS, preprocessors called as SaSS and LESS were introduced. Both of them are dynamic stylesheet languages used for developing parameter based stylesheets for creating different styles in an entire website. However, we will mainly be discussing about LESS here as it is more developer-friendly and uses the Javascript syntax. Some of the features which LESS provides to a web designer are discussed here.

In the first part of this series I gave a quick overview of the popular CSS preprocessors LESS and SASS. I also shared a few of the frameworks in which they are used. I plan on taking a deeper dive into LESS and talking about the parts of the language I use most often. I also plan on showing you how to get started using it with CodeKit. Let's dig in!

Using LESS to Create Twenty Twelve Child Theme We are going to be creating a child theme for the default Twenty Twelve theme. For those of you who are unfamiliar with creating child themes, the only thing we need to create a child theme is a style.css file. For more info, visit the WordPress Codex...............

Golden Bootstrap is a tiny add-on for Bootstrap giving you the divine power of using golden ratio sized columns. Available both for Less and Sass CSS preprocessors.