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Jade in 60 Seconds

Tutorial • Intermediate

Jade is a language which compiles into HTML. There are three standout reasons to use it, which we’ll cover in 60 seconds!

Kezz Bracey • 16 Jul 2015
CSS

Making Gradients Easier with LESS Mixins

Tutorial • Intermediate

CSS Gradients have pretty messy syntax, made even worse once you add vendor prefixes. So, in this tutorial, we’re going to make Gradient color generation...

Thoriq Firdaus • 23 Jun 2015
CSS

CSS Preprocessors in 60 Seconds

Tutorial • Beginner

CSS Preprocessors do a number of things and can massively improve your workflow–this is a quick fire explanation of CSS Preprocessors, in 60 seconds!

Adi Purdila • 18 Jun 2015
Usability

Web Design for Kids: CSS Layout

Tutorial • Beginner

Welcome to the sixth lesson of our Web Design for Kids series, CSS Layout! This is where we put all our elements exactly where we want them on the screen....

Joni Trythall • 11 Jun 2015
CSS

Understanding the LESS Loop

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we will comprehensively cover the LESS loop (coupled with a few other LESS features which we have discussed in previous posts, such as...

Thoriq Firdaus • 6 May 2015
Design Theory

Creating Color Schemes with LESS Color Functions

Tutorial • Intermediate

LESS provides a handful of functions which make defining and manipulating colors super easy. In this tutorial we are going to walk through a number of them,...

Thoriq Firdaus • 13 Apr 2015
CSS

Understanding Variable Scope in Sass

Tutorial • Beginner

In this article, we’ll take a deeper look at variables and variable scope in Sass. The scope of a variable describes the context within which it’s defined...

George Martsoukos • 7 Apr 2015
JavaScript for Designers

The Command Line for Web Design: Live Reload & BrowserSync

Tutorial • Beginner

In this lesson you'll learn how to create commands that add an extra layer of awesome to your projects, enabling live reload and browser synchronization.

Kezz Bracey • 26 Mar 2015
CSS

The Command Line for Web Design: Powering Up Front End Code

Tutorial • Beginner

As a web designer there are three languages you’re pretty much guaranteed to work with one way or another: CSS, HTML and JavaScript. In this tutorial you’re...

Kezz Bracey • 19 Mar 2015
CSS

How to Use Myth: “CSS the Way it Was Imagined”

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, I'm going to walk you through a tool named Myth. Myth is an alternative CSS preprocessor which, unlike Sass or LESS, doesn’t use...

Thoriq Firdaus • 9 Mar 2015
JavaScript for Designers

CSS Feature Detection: Modernizr or Feature Queries?

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, I’ll go over two approaches for detecting whether a browser supports certain CSS features or not. The first one takes advantage of...

George Martsoukos • 27 Feb 2015
Responsive Design

Quick Tip: Try Combining EMs and REMs

Tutorial • Intermediate

At the 2014 CSSConf in Australia, Simurai gave a really amazing presentation called "Styling with Strings" where he goes over quite a few techniques for...

Cory Simmons • 24 Feb 2015