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I working on a right way to conduct the styling for a rather big website project, as I get usually stuck half-way, when the complexity increases. I already read quite some literature and found a lot of useful tips on the Internet, e.g. "use meaningful class names", and the like.
However, most sources are concerned with the actual working principle of CSS which are illustrated by rather short code examples. What I am actually looking for is a guide describing the styling of a website from start to end, including possible naming conventions, class management, file management and the like. Really great would also be a code example of medium-sized, or big site.
I am also grateful for any reference to books, magazines, articles and the like.
As I am not aware of any reference to book, I just follow basic things which makes my work quite smooth. Yes meaningful class names are must with that Try following the below which might help you
Keep the code clean and neat which is indenting the code before you wrap up for the day
Divide your css into part (Place the code of header and footer in one files Ex:base.css and the body part in another css Ex:main.css)
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Is this website code beautify reliable to check my css codes in details or are there other tools?
There are many websites like the one you've attached in your question and they usually follow the same rules, so I wouldn't be too worried about what you use. I use CSSLint from time to time, http://csslint.net/, which is very strict on the syntax and how you are using your rules.
The most important part of your CSS (in my opinion) should be, how reusable and maintainable your style sheets are, and there are many articles on the web which outline some of the principles you should be using, like https://speckyboy.com/good-bad-css-practices/, and a quick google for CSS practices will reveal many different guides and articles on this.
There are also IDEs with a form of intellisense on the CSS syntax, like WebStorm or Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/css), so you don't have to paste your styles to and from a website.
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I would really like to learn how to use Twitter Bootstrap 3. The problem is that it seems I can't find a good source to learn it from. Any source I've tried so far assumed that you somehow have some knowledge and wasn't explaining what are the available classes for elements, what are the classes they have used are actually doing etc.
I simply want a source it can either be a book/videos or w/e that will start from scratch and if possible, will use HTML5, modernizr and respond.js to make it cross-browser supported and actually give me a start point (base folder just like H5BP) which I can then later on start building my own websites.
Thanks in advance!
The bootstrap docs are really helpful, probably the best resource.
http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/
http://getbootstrap.com/components
My first recommendation is to learn CSS in depth. Oftentimes, Bootstrap is just not necessary, but developers rely on it because they are too lazy to master CSS fundamentals. You are welcome to check my book series - Functional CSS - which covers almost the entirety of CSS using practical examples.
If you are keen on sticking with Bootstrap, then you can 1) print the source code for their example (Bootstrap examples) and simply re-implement them on your own, typing each block of code one line at a time and observing the effect, and 2) read the Bootstrap source code. The latter is a bit over 6000 lines and should not take long to go through. And, 3) reflecting on what you have learned in 1 and 2, create personal realistic website that uses Bootstrap.
If you are looking for a good source here is one: http://ieatcss.com/twitter-bootstrap-tutorial.html
3 Step by step real time examples are used in Ieatcss bootstrap 3 tutorial. You can easily understand them without any knowledge of the basics.
Don't worry about learning CSS & other messy things. The tutorials in http://ieatcss.com is targeted at complete beginners, you can easily understand them.
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Hussain.
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I'm looking for automated tools to help me refactor a bunch of CSS files, for example:
Remove unnecessary selectors (e.g. not used inside the page)
detect repeatable rules inside several selectors and suggest a merge
Are there any such tools?
Thanks!
Yes Google Page Speed does this CSS investigation. Link:
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/overview.html
not totally automated, but this one works well.
I like the fact that I can see what I'm changing. While I've done UI for 15 years, there's always little things that I notice myself repeating via using this tool. In the long run, doing things a bit manually is going to make me a better developer.
Doing one that looks for unnecessary selectors is a dangerous game. You could do it, but if you ever find yourself doing dynamic and/or ajax injected divs, you'll immediately blow up your page or app using an automated tool. If you do it, make sure it's not something that works on the fly, without some sort of very good testing environment to verify the resulting output. My current corporate clients would never allow me to use any sort of point-of-request tool based on their requirements of 100% tested and verified CSS.
This tool can do automatic css refactoring, though its value in project still need to evaluate carefully.
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Just curious does anyone know a program or script to generate a style sheet(with blank values obviously) from the structure of your html document? Basically just pull out the ID's and Classes you set in your html and make placeholder css so you don't have to plan it ahead of time or write it again ,remember D.R.Y. anyone?:) Feel free to yell at me if you don't think this could help anyone else here :D . I'm sure I could whip something up like that but if it's already out there I might as well stick to my rule of DRABEE(Don't repeat any body else either) . Thanks.
Did you check http://primercss.com/ ?
Seems to be doing exactly what you are asking for.
CSS Frame Generator http://lab.xms.pl/css-generator/ works better than Primer.
Little late to the party but these days, there is also BearCSS:
http://www.bearcss.com/
Disclaimer
This answer is primarily meant to add extra value to this thread and create an overview of CSS generators.
In my opinion, after trying all the mentioned tools in this thread, http://lab.xms.pl/css-generator/ is the best one.
I found the best tools out there, after rigorous comparisons of the different available ones:
If you want to generate CSS automatically from the markup online for free, then you need BeeCSS - CSS Generator:
http://beecss.theextremewebdesigns.com/
If you already have (messy) CSS & you would like to clean/minify it online for free, then you need BeeCSS - Cleaner Minifier
http://beecss.theextremewebdesigns.com/css_clean_css_minify/
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Does anyone know if there are CSS templates purely for documentation purposes? I haven't been able to find any.
Edit: Looks like I will have to write my own. Basically it would have been nice to have a little css template that has pre-styled notice boxes and lists purely for the use of user guides or documentation but not too hard to setup.
try 960 grid
it's basically a CSS framework
Blueprint CSS
On a par with 960 Grid
You may want to check out the designs at the CSS Zen Garden.
The goal of this site is to showcase what is possible with CSS-based design. Style sheets contributed by various graphic designers are used to change the visual presentation of a single HTML file, producing hundreds of different designs. The HTML markup itself never changes between the different designs.
On each design page, you'd have a link to view the CSS file of that design.