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Published inAug 2016
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ISBN-139781785883361
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Luke Watts
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Luke Watts

Luke Watts is a web developer and digital artist from Galway, Ireland. He started learning web design in 2012 after many years working with AutoCAD in the manufacturing industry. In 2014 he set up his own web development agency called Affinity4 (http://affinity4.ie) in Galway, Ireland. He is an Oracle Certified MySQL Developer, and an Adobe Certified Associate (Photoshop and Dreamweaver). Luke has a keen interest in learning and teaching others. He has written articles for many websites, including his own blog, on a wide range of subjects such as SEO, WordPress Development, SVG, Sass, Jade, OOP, Git, Silex, MySQL, and PHP. Luke is also an accomplished artist, both in traditional mediums (mostly pencil and ink) and in digital painting. When not building websites or writing code he will most likely be working on a digital painting on his Wacom tablet using Photoshop or creating a 3D model or scene in any number of 3D modeling applications.
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In this chapter we looked at numerous features of the Compass framework. We looked at setting up a project using Compass and the benefits of knowing how to take full control of this process. We looked at the typography helpers for creating a vertical rhythm and discussed the challenges that Compass overcomes when creating a vertical rhythm in a design. We also looked at some online code editors that allow you to quickly and easily write Sass and Compass, such as SassMeister and CodePen, and we compared the two.

We also looked at the issue of vendor prefixes and how Compass helps eliminate having to write and maintain them on your projects. We also looked at using Compass to simplify creating an animation and also tag clouds, lists, and unstyled links. We also spoke about the possibility that Compass is nearing its "end of life" cycle. Perhaps that's for the best.

In the next chapter, we'll take a break from writing Sass and Compass and look at some of the theory and concepts you'll...

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Published in: Aug 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785883361

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Luke Watts

Luke Watts is a web developer and digital artist from Galway, Ireland. He started learning web design in 2012 after many years working with AutoCAD in the manufacturing industry. In 2014 he set up his own web development agency called Affinity4 (http://affinity4.ie) in Galway, Ireland. He is an Oracle Certified MySQL Developer, and an Adobe Certified Associate (Photoshop and Dreamweaver). Luke has a keen interest in learning and teaching others. He has written articles for many websites, including his own blog, on a wide range of subjects such as SEO, WordPress Development, SVG, Sass, Jade, OOP, Git, Silex, MySQL, and PHP. Luke is also an accomplished artist, both in traditional mediums (mostly pencil and ink) and in digital painting. When not building websites or writing code he will most likely be working on a digital painting on his Wacom tablet using Photoshop or creating a 3D model or scene in any number of 3D modeling applications.
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