This week was very weird, I had a very difficult time focusing, despite staying posted in the library everyday for 6 hours. On a personal note, I was tired as hell and couldn’t figure out why. On a professional note, I started it off spending my entire Monday applying for jobs, some media (a girl …
Archives for Tag: sass
This Week in Coding: #004
Self-paced coding training and/or activities: Completed Lynda course: CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site. My write up on this course is here. Completed Lynda course: Fireworks CS5: Essential Training I don’t know that I needed to complete this, considering it was the longest of all the courses I’ve added to a playlist to listen …
Trying out Sass with CSS, part 2
Following up on the Sass Essentials course I watched, CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site which showed various techniques on converting an existing site from “vanilla css” to sass. As I mentioned before, WordPress themes utilize Sass, so if you choose to use the Underscores starter theme (which I’ve used on my own themes …
Trying out Sass with CSS, part 1
Last post I write about my growing interest in using Sass for CSS development. First I’ll review some of what I learned in the Sass Essentials Training course and then review my top takeaways from the CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site video course in part 2 of this series. In the Sass Essentials …
This Week in Coding: #003
So before I get into everything – I’ve had an interesting week and unfortunately it’s coming to an end with bad news … RIP Prince :-(. I started off the week strong-ish, hoping to through everything I outlined in my previous weekly update, but I didn’t make a dint in that list. Not to say …
An introduction to CSS preprocessors
I saw that one of the local bootcamps was hosting a crash course on Sass so I decided to enroll to see what it’s about. I have no experience with Sass and until I started googling it the night before the crash course, was absolutely confused about how it could help with css and what …