Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Front-end style guides, Fronteers @ WHITE
Search
Stijn Janssen
August 30, 2012
Technology
6
300
Front-end style guides, Fronteers @ WHITE
Stijn Janssen
August 30, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Stijn Janssen
See All by Stijn Janssen
Front-end style guides, Fronteers @ Microsoft Belgium
stijnj
0
85
Leave me alone!, Barcamp Hasselt
stijnj
0
160
From Nerd to Runner, Barcamp Brussel
stijnj
0
69
Why each website should be accessible, Barcamp Genk
stijnj
0
54
Building and maintaining a website, MacBeurs Genk
stijnj
0
52
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
「海外登壇」という 選択肢を与えるために 〜Gophers EX
logica0419
0
500
Culture Deck
optfit
0
330
サーバーレスアーキテクチャと生成AIの融合 / Serverless Meets Generative AI
_kensh
12
3k
【Developers Summit 2025】プロダクトエンジニアから学ぶ、 ユーザーにより高い価値を届ける技術
niwatakeru
2
890
5分で紹介する生成AIエージェントとAmazon Bedrock Agents / 5-minutes introduction to generative AI agents and Amazon Bedrock Agents
hideakiaoyagi
0
220
ビジネスと現場活動をつなぐソフトウェアエンジニアリング~とあるスタートアッププロダクトの成長記録より~
mizunori
0
210
Moved to https://speakerdeck.com/toshihue/presales-engineer-career-bridging-tech-biz-ja
toshihue
2
550
[2025-02-07]生成AIで変える問い合わせの未来 〜チームグローバル化の香りを添えて〜
tosite
1
290
モノレポ開発のエラー、誰が見る?Datadog で実現する適切なトリアージとエスカレーション
biwashi
6
770
目の前の仕事と向き合うことで成長できる - 仕事とスキルを広げる / Every little bit counts
soudai
22
5.8k
AWSでRAGを実現する上で感じた3つの大事なこと
ymae
3
1k
30分でわかる『アジャイルデータモデリング』
hanon52_
9
2.2k
Featured
See All Featured
Done Done
chrislema
182
16k
Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
lauravandoore
460
33k
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
53
5.2k
We Have a Design System, Now What?
morganepeng
51
7.4k
What's in a price? How to price your products and services
michaelherold
244
12k
The Power of CSS Pseudo Elements
geoffreycrofte
75
5.5k
How to Create Impact in a Changing Tech Landscape [PerfNow 2023]
tammyeverts
49
2.3k
The Psychology of Web Performance [Beyond Tellerrand 2023]
tammyeverts
45
2.3k
Fight the Zombie Pattern Library - RWD Summit 2016
marcelosomers
232
17k
Git: the NoSQL Database
bkeepers
PRO
427
64k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
94
13k
The Cost Of JavaScript in 2023
addyosmani
47
7.3k
Transcript
FRONT-END STYLE GUIDES
STIJN JANSSEN
Front-end developer @ Inventis
Front-end developer @ Inventis
Front-end developer @ Inventis
None
None
None
None
A good developer should be lazy (and dumb). http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-08-24-n14.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/08/how-to-be-lazy-dumb-and-successful.html
http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Be_Stupid_and_Lazy
DRY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klmircea/3210506796/
None
LISTS • Tutorials • Code snippets • Best practices •
Tips from experts • Browserbugs
None
FRONT-END STYLE GUIDE
FRONT-END STYLE GUIDE
A GUIDE • Contains useful information • Recurring tasks •
Manual, encyclopedia, price guide, ...
FRONT-END STYLE GUIDE
To provide uniformity in style and formatting of a document
website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide
A STYLE GUIDE • Defines how a guide should look
• Takes decisions for you • ISO, branding, ...
FRONT-END STYLE GUIDE
Developer A Developer B Project X Project Y
Developer A Developer B Project X Project Y
None
A FRONT-END STYLE GUIDE aims to improve team collaboration
THE BENEFITS • Sharing knowledge • Ideal starting point for
new co-workers • Great reference for interns
THE TEAM VERSION
None
DECISIONS • Folder structure, naming conventions, ... • Spaces or
tabs? • LESS or SASS • BEM, SMACSS or OOCSS? • Should we pass JSLint? • H5BP or Bootstrap?
http://na.isobar.com/standards/
THE PROJECT VERSION
DESIGN • Fonts • Colors • Headings (h1-6) • Content
(p, ol, ul, ...) • Buttons • Form elements
http://www.pukkelpop.be/nl/styleguide/subpage
DECISIONS • Which font should we use for headings? •
Vertical rhythm of 6px • Images must have 12px margin around text • Should we use formal or informal language in content?
http://www.starbucks.com/static/reference/styleguide/
MORE BENEFITS • Happy designers (consistency) • Easy to optimize
elements • Perfect starting point for a redesign on bigger projects • Testable!
TIPS & RESOURCES
TIPS • Don’t reinvent the wheel (link to existing resources)
• Start early in the project • Everybody should be involved (client, desinger, ...) • Extend, never replace • Think abstract
RESOURCES • http://pea.rs/ • http://www.alistapart.com/articles/building-twitter-bootstrap/ • http://smacss.com/book/ • http://24ways.org/2011/front-end-style-guides •
https://gimmebar.com/loves/maban/collection/front-end- styleguides
EXAMPLES • Technisch • Isobar (http://na.isobar.com/standards/) • Grafisch • Ubuntu
(http://design.ubuntu.com/web) • BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel) • Tekstueel • Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style)
THANKS!
QUESTIONS?
STIJN JANSSEN • @stijnj •
[email protected]