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Context Aware CSS – Front Porch Front-End Developers Conference, Dallas, TX

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Presented by Matthew Carver

Content needs context

defining contextual awareness

@media(sensor){adjustment}

Disseminating Active map information to mobile hosts

  • Historically the web takes its cues from traditional media
  • Google uses available data to extend contextual awareness across its products – Facebook does this well

 contextually aware web

  • user
  • task
  • environment

What can we tell about a user? Don’t confuse a user with a device.

Example users:

  • physically impaired
  • specific objectives
  • limited/meaningful scope

Example tasks:

  • repeated interactions
  • implied relationship

Example Technology

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  • mobile/tablet/pc
  • hardware limitations
  • input types

 Paul’s notes

Content is critical.
But content needs context.
  • Defining Contextual Awareness
  • Applications in web design
  • level 4 media queries
  • Summary

SMACSS Your Sass Up Mina Markham – Front Porch Front-End Developers Conference, Dallas, TX

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Presented by Mina Markham

SMACSS is not a framework. It’s an approach to authoring your style sheets. You can use

categorization

– base,
– layout, modules, states and themes

base styles are bare minimum (css reset)
layout styles are the grid system and any defining elements of your site (header/nav/etc)
modules is where you write the bulk of the css. components of pages
states are the active, collapsed, hidden or other states of your modules. You can use a separate naming convention for these
themes don’t always apply, but a theme can be a new skin for modules

base uses standard tags
layout can use a .layout prefix for your styles
modules use the name of the module
state styles can use a .is- prefix
theme can use .theme- prefix

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Rapid Templating: “Designing in the Browser” with Sass, Compass, and Serve

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by Nathan Smith at HTML5 Texas in Austin, TX (Deck)

Have you ever found yourself needing to build static front-end templates, either as part of a larger project or as a way to communicate the nuances of responsive design to a client? I think we can all agree that just doing flat HTML leaves us wanting for more templating power.

But, using a dynamic language (PHP, Ruby, etc) typically means that it’s tougher to hand off to a client, who may (not) have a local development environment. That’s where Serve helps bridge the gap. It lets you play with the “”V”” of Rails MVC, but also export flat HTML for easy distribution.

Responsive Web Design

Designers can’t just throw stuff over the wall to the developers anymore

The deck says it all. Great stuff!

sass is to css what jQuery is to JavaScript

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