Get Sassy!

So lately I've been playing with SASS. If you haven't used SASS, and you apply CSS to your web pages, you need to be using this! Especially if you apply anything more complex than simple CSS.
OK, where do I start?

SASS has been out for several years already (and I am just now discovering it sigh). We all know how awesome CSS is and the beautiful things it can do thanks to the addition of magic in CSS3. However, there are still some things that are a little difficult to accomplish. The implementation is variables is a godsend, but not supported by all browsers. SASS is a preprocessor for CSS. And so far there isn't too much it can't do from what I've seen. If you're a coder, you'll feel right at home creating your style. I don't even look at my compiled CSS file once SASS builds it. It doesn't look any different than any standard CSS, but sometimes there can be so much of it. I often wondered how anyone could control such CSS (whenever I snooped at it on a random webpage). Now I know... chances are they used SASS.

I really don't want to get into SASS too much, as there are several tutorials out there on the subject, and I am too new to SASS to even pretend to give a decent lesson on the subject. There is a plethora of information on the Twitters about SASS, but a few that have really helped me are the SASS homesite — this site has extensive documentation that is pretty impressive. The SASS Way — a site filled with projects and tutorials on this subject, and last, but not least, a YouTube tutorial that I find easy to listen to and follow along with.

I know this meager blog post doesn't really drum up too much excitement, but you really need to check it out if you are not already using it. I hope it is as much of a benefit to you as it is to me.

Gracias and Happy Coding!

Dave

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