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Introduction to Sass Suzette Franck Charleston WordCamp Saturday, May 17th, 2014 Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Suzette Franck with a “ck” @mt_Suzette ★WordPress Evangelist @ Media Temple ★Born in Hollywood, resides in So. California ★20 Years Coding & Web Development ★Developed over 200 WordPress sites ★2013: 12 WordCamps 2014: 4 WordCamps ★WordPress Podcast: WPunicornproject.com ★Reg. Contributor: WPwatercooler.com ★Blogs at: suzettefranck.com ★Slides: speakerdeck.com/suzettefranck

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★You’re familiar with writing CSS ★You’re interested in theme development ★You think WordPress is pretty awesome ★You know how to use Google ★You’re probably pretty smart already My Silly Assumptions

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Teach you at least one thing you can put into practice right away! My Goal...

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Sass For Web Designers by Dan Cederholm

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple What is Sass? Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple sass-lang.com

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Sass is a CSS pre-processor, outputs .CSS from .SCSS file ★Sass is a Ruby “Gems” or Application ★Gems need to be installed once on your computer ★World of pre-made additions (mixins) and other resources ★Two flavors: .SCSS (Sassy CSS) & .SASS ★.SCSS most closely resembles .CSS in syntax Sass Basics

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple thesassway.com/beginner/ getting-started-with-sass-and-compass @adamstac by Adam Stacoviak

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Sassmeister.com

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Backwards Compatible with all versions CSS ★Fills holes in CSS: variables to represent values ★Calculates values: colors, lengths ★Bubbles up: Media Queries can be written within their element ★Supports Advanced Logic/if..then, while, else, etc. ★Adopted by WordPress Core team & GPL Compatible* Sass FTW, but Why? * Reference: http://wptavern.com/wordpress-core-adopts-sass-css-preprocessor

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★When writing code: DRY Don’t Repeat Yourself! ★Reduces HTTP requests with multiple stylesheets @import ★Helps you write more advanced code faster ★Cleaner, easier to read once you are familiar ★Using variable, make site-wide changes in fewer places ★4 output styles can be chosen depending on goals Efficient? How?

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Nested (default) ★Expanded (closest to hand-crafted CSS) ★Compact (saves space) ★Compressed (saves most space, minified) ★Output style can be specified in your config.rb Output Styles

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Example config.rb

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Are Sass Files Hard to Create? Rename your .css file with an .scss extension!

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ALRIGHTY... Ready For Some .SCSS Code?

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Wolf Starter Theme by Brad Parbs https://github.com/bradp/Wolf

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Comments in Sass `

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Modularize your CSS into separate pages or partials ★Re-use your favorite mixins on all of your projects ★Compiled into one .css file at end ★Fewer HTTP requests - performance! ★Import others’ mixins and use them @import

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple @import Note: .scss is appended to end of filename

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Repeated selectors are nested inside curly braces ★& is a placeholder for the parent selector ★Namespaces can also be nested, ie font, background ★Compiled CSS will always be more verbose Nesting All The Things

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Nesting Selectors .SCSS .CSS

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Repeated namespaces are nested inside the curly braces ★Use with font, background, etc. Nesting Namespaces .SCSS .CSS

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Finally! Variables for CSS! ★Declare in your .SCSS file like $name: value ★Call by $name ★Ability to change variables in one place ★Useful for defining hex colors / creating a style guide ★Don’t forget 140 color names in CSS3! (Google it) $variables

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple $variables .SCSS .CSS

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Finally! Macros for CSS! ★Re-usable blocks of styles ★Define with @mixin declaration ★Call with @include ★Useful for CSS3 Vendor Prefixes ★Powerful with arguments ★Many pre-made mixins you can use in community ★Compass, Bourbon, GitHub, Your Own Library @mixin

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple @mixin .SCSS .CSS

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Mixins with Arguments .SCSS .CSS

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★darken, lighten, adjust-hue, saturate, desaturate ★Full list at: http://sass-lang.com/documentation/Sass/Script/ Functions.html ★Hexidecimal # is calculated & output in final CSS Color Functions

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Sass Color Functions .SCSS .CSS

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple http://sassme.arc90.com/

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple ★Brad Parbs Sass talks on WordPress.tv ★Chris Coyier’s website css-tricks.com ★mashable.com/2013/06/11/sass-compass-tools Other Resources

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple SO... Who is going to experiment with Sass?

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Media Temple // 8520 National Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 / 877-578-4000 / mediatemple.net / @mt_Suzette © 2013 (mt) Media Temple Do you have any questions?

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Thank you for being here! Follow Me on Twitter! Suzette Franck suzette@mediatemple.net https://speakerdeck.com/suzettefranck @mt_Suzette