Staying DRY with Preprocessing Languages
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript together make up the visual landscape of the web as we know it. Like the skeleton, skin and muscles come together to help create a functioning human body, these three languages, when combined in an intentional and planned way, create a website. As front-end Developers, it is our job to utilize these languages creatively and efficiently in order to create the best possible experience for the end users of thunder::tech’s clients. While these languages are fundamental to the web, writing them is a repetitive and time-consuming process. To help streamline the process of writing these languages, alternative languages called preprocessing languages have been introduced to help
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Getting a little deeper down the rabbit hole here, Sass and Pug are tools to help front-end developers create DRY’er, more modular code.
DRY is a principle in development called “Don’t Repeat Yourself,” which focuses on reducing and eliminating duplicated code. Considering that every line of code in software must be maintained, it’s easy to see that duplication then is simply waste. Similarly, modular programming is a software design technique that encourages separating functions of a program into individual, reusable modules, in that each module contains everything necessary to perform a single desired function. Phew!
A simple way of visualizing this can be seen by looking at thunder::tech’s homepage:
Each separate color and number is it’s own unique module. These sections can be reused in other places on the site with different content. Building websites modularly removes some of the repetition encountered in development which promotes DRY development and in the end results in a more flexible, expandable, and maintainable website.
So with the understanding that Sass and Pug help to create better code overall, let’s take a look at another example of a feature that both Sass and Pug use called mixins.
Pug to HTML (Source: pugjs.org)
Sass to CSS (Source: sassmeister.com)
A mixin in both Sass and Pug allows a developer to write named, reusable blocks of code. These blocks of code can be called by their name to be used in different areas.
At Swagger Distribution, the interest in designing a website is a wonderful aspect to have in the society we live in today. Key concepts that are important when it comes to designing a website is necessary to know before getting started. First knowing what language you want the website designed in, can be beneficial based on what the company wants to do. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a language that creates the website. Hypertext allows someone to move around the web. When clicking on a text in an HTML website is called a Hyperlink. Markup is what the tags do to the text inside of the HTML website. Language, of course, is a language, HTML is the language that has the code and syntax, just like any other language. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used for configuring the language on the webpage. When
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Asset pipe line is used to concatenate and compress JavaScript and CSS assets. It also gives additional functionality to write these assets in other languages pre-processors such as CoffeeScript, Sass and
Compatibility with many tools: WordPress, Drupal, Cyfe, Raven, Facebook, Antavo, Paypal, Magento, Etsy, WooCommerce, etc.
Using Adobe’s Dreamweaver”AWYSMYG”, what you see what you get, which helps me quickly to scan my code as well as spot any error and suggest code that me used when creating templates for popular CMS’s like WordPress , Joomla and Drupal. By using Dreamweaver I will have My code and design view at the same time we allowed me to control my website easily, also I can open each file that I want to use immediately. Adding background color is very easy because it gives me hex color code automatically. Although The Dreamweaver is very useful it makes the website designer very lazy if he/she is not careful.
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A range of software packages can be used .HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) files can be created in a web authoring package such as Dreamweaver. The html files created by this software will include CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) files that are used to enhance the visual appearance of the site. Other web authoring tools are graphic design packages such as Adobe Photoshop that can be used to design a skin for the user interface design. This skin can then be exported into a html and css combination that is used as the basis for the developing site.
Living in the United States we enjoy many wonderful freedoms and liberties. Even though most of these freedoms seem innate to our lives, most have been earned though sacrifice and hard work. Out of all of our rights, freedom of speech is perhaps our most cherished, and one of the most controversial. Hate speech is one of the prices we all endure to ensure our speech stays free. But with hate speeches becoming increasingly common, many wonder if it is too great of a price to pay, or one that we should have to pay at all.
This mini-class is going to expand a little on what you learned about floats in the RPGDU class and will be introducing more CSS transitions for you to use in your coding. In the last few classes you have been learning about absolute and relative positioning and while this is very useful, it means that elements basically ignore one another within their own structure.
There are 3 different ways of implementing CSS styles into html. These are internal, external and inline. External is when you have a file that only contains CSS code in it and is saved with .css at the end. External sheets are referenced in the HTML code using <link>. You need to link it from all HTML pages. Doing so means you only need to set the styles once. This comes in useful if you want to change the styles later on as you only have to do it in the one place. This is an example.
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CSS: Combine multiple style sheets. Reduce server response time using site speed evaluation tools like PageSpeed or WhySlow. Enable browser caching to save time for users that have repeated visits.
areareas. The advantages of modular systems are due to elements inherent in the modular process which include short construction time,non-permanence, flexibility, and