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Author: Wynn Netherland
ISBN : 1617290149
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About the Author
Wynn Netherland is a full stack web creative. When he's not shipping awesome at GitHub, he co-hosts The Changelog Podcast and speaks at industry conferences.
Nathan Weizenbaum is the creator and the lead developer of Sass. He's currently a software engineer working on Gmail at Google.
Chris Eppstein has more than ten years of experience building web sites. An active member of the Ruby community, he's the creator of Compass, a member of the Sass core team, and maintains or contributes to dozens of open source projects.
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- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Manning Publications (August 2, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1617290149
- ISBN-13: 978-1617290145
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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I started reading this book because I wanted to learn how to build style sheets more efficiently using Sass and Compass. I am a web application developer so the thought of being able to build style sheets using variables and functions is definitely exciting. I expected this book to cover Sass and Compass and, of course, it did not disappoint. The author took great care to explain all aspects in detail and even takes you through the creation and sharing of a Compass extension so that one can eventually join the community and start sharing/contributing.
I have to say though, this book offered me so much more than a great foundation for learning Sass and Compass. The author also took great care to explain peripheral aspects such as design. When one does not come from a graphic design background, as I do not, these extra details always prove to be invaluable.
Thanks to this book, I definitely see a graphic design primer course in my future. I realise that I not only need to improve the efficiency of my style sheet builds, I also need to get my head around print design. I had no idea how closely coupled print design concepts had become with web site design concepts. For instance, I had never heard the term vertical rhythm before reading this book - it turns out this is a very important concept where readability is concerned. The book re-iterates the importance of the grid framework. All of this ultimately relates back to your style sheets. There are so many great snippets of information that, even if I choose never to use Sass and Compass, I still walk away with a goldmine of information that I can use to improve my site designs.
The appendices are very helpful in the sense that they cover installing Sass and Compass and then getting started with Compass.
As a developer I have always struggled with CSS. In theory, CSS is easy to understand and follow, but in practice there are so many oddities and browser inconsistencies that makes designing anything but the simplest page a complete minefield. I have never managed to keep up with all the hacks and patterns that are required to write solid CSS that works across all browsers and devices. On top of this CSS is a very un-DRY language - I keep finding myself having to specify a single rule in multiple places. As a programmer having to do this drives me insane. I always end up with a complete mess of unstructured hacked together and no doubt inefficient set of rules. Using Twitter Bootstrap does save a lot of this pain and is an easy fallback, but it has never been a satisfactory solution. A lot is set it stone, it is a pain to customize and it always hurts to pull in a huge CSS file for even the simplest site.
So I was very interested when I heard about Sass. When I found out I could declare variables and nest my rules, I was sold. It never actually occurred to me that this was only the start of what Sass could actually do. I was still plagued with having to implement all the various browser hacks myself. When I heard that Compass could help with this, I tried to have a go with it. The documentation for Compass, whilst being a great reference, does not really explain what Compass is about and I really struggled to actually work out what Compass was about and how I could use it.
Then I discovered this book. By the end of the first chapter I had learned what Compass was about and by the second I had tripled my knowledge of the potential of Sass. I could have put the book down at this point and it would have still been worth it!