Crackerjack CSS: Basics & Best Practices

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CSS Basics & Best Practices Sheri Bigelow @designsimply

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HTML Content CSS Style

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Elements

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Attributes

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ID & Class

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#connect { display: inline-block; margin: 22px auto 8px; } #connect li { float: left; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0.846em; } #connect li a:link, #connect li a:visited { display: block; width: 18px; height: 18px; border-bottom: none; } #connect li a:link:hover, #connect li a:visited:hover { background-position: 0 -18px; } #connect li.twitter a { background-image: url(images/twitter.png); } #connect li.flickr a { background-image: url(images/flickr.png); } #connect li.rss a { background-image: url(images/rss.png); } Selectors

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Selector Types

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Who is more evil?

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http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_speciﬁcity_wars.html

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Order Matters

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Box Model

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http://hicksdesign.co.uk/boxmodel/

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Box Model http://redmelon.net/tstme/box_model/

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Pseudo Elements

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http://nicolasgallagher.com/multiple-backgrounds-and-borders-with-css2/

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http://nicolasgallagher.com/multiple-backgrounds-and-borders-with-css2/demo/backgrounds.html

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http://www.colorspire.com/

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http://colorschemedesigner.com/

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http://colourlovers.com/

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http://www.istockphoto.com/

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http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

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http://color.aurlien.net/

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Responsive Design

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http://colly.com/

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Validation

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http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

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Browser Wars

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http://shoze.blogspot.com/2011/06/brorwser-wars.html

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http://caniuse.com/

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Developer Tools

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Custom CSS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/safecss/

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Child Themes http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-child-theme/

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http://daneden.me/animate/

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/css-tricks

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/the-planetarium

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http://animatable.com/demos/madmanimation/

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thank you :)