Weekend Presentation: SMACSS
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Weekend Presentation: SMACSS

on Sep 29th 2012 with 7 comments

One of the speakers I met up with at the Smashing Conference this month was Jonathan Snook, talking about his SMACSS (pronounced “smacks”) approach to stylesheet organization. In this quick video on Adobe TV, Jonathan introduces you to the ideas behind SMACSS.

If you’re anything like me, your CSS files probably start out in a logical way, but become less and less organized as you build and add and build and edit and build. The SMACSS approach is a set of guidelines which logically group certain aspects of your CSS, making it modular, accessible and streamlined. And scalable (mustn’t forget that).

Quick Vid

Further Resources

For more information on SMACSS take a look at smacss.com, follow Jonathan on Twitter @snookca, or check out his blog.

 
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  • http://www.webrenos.com Lucas Tully

    I was also at smashingconf and found this presentation to be very thought provoking. In the sense that I found myself wanting to skip going to the bar and instead wanting to go rework my disgusting stylesheets.

  • http://laranz.in lawrence77

    The SMACSS eBook will come to @ https://tutsplus.com/ebooks/ soon on October :)

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Yep – another good reason for checking out Premium :)

  • MD

    Where here is Download link ???

    • http://laranz.in lawrence77

      I think there is no offline capability in adobe TV.

  • http://www.imstillreallybored.com Josh Bedo

    Seems very similar to SASS or Less approach but will definitely look into.

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Mmmmm nope. It has nothing to do with preprocessing, SMACSS is an approach to organising your CSS files. CSS is an inherently messy business, Jonathan’s trying to establish some standards to tidy things up :)