EPISODE · Nov 2, 2016 · 1H 11M
138 All About CSS with our WordPress Round Table
from WP-Tonic | WordPress | SaaS | Bootstrap SaaS | Startups · host Jonathan Denwood & Kurt von Ahnen
We talk about CSS, Flexbox, CS Grids, CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation, Sass and other CSS pre-processors. Our panel this week: Alex Denning from https://alexdenning.com/ and https://masterwp.co/ Jackie D'Elia from https://jackiedelia.com/ Sallie Goetsch from https://wpfangirl.com/ Jonathan Denwood from https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke from Lockedown SEO Episode 138 Table of Contents 0:00 Podcast Intros. 1:49 WordPress New Story #1: The Wix Mobile App, A WordPress Joint https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/ 8:07 WordPress Story #2: Lessons from failing to sell WordPress themes at the start of the gold rush https://alexdenning.com/lessons-sell-wordpress-themes/ 25:08 Main Topic: All About CSS 25:26 What things do you find frustrating about CSS? 27:18 How has CSS changed over the years? 30:16 Flexbox, and the CSS problems it has solved 34:44 The browsers that tend to have browser quirks in 2016/2017 37:02 Do CSS Frameworks make front-end development easier or harder? 42:31 Jackie's workflow with Sass and PostCSS. 50:47 John is still old-school with CSS. 51:48 Sallie's workflow and where she wants to go. 53:40 Email is the final frontier for relatively easy CSS support. 58:47 When will CSS Grid be supported in the majority of browsers? 1:02:39 What are some innovative uses of CSS you have seen this year? 1:07:40 Podcast outros =================== Links Mentioned During Episode 138: A Complete Guide to Flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Using CSS Flexible Boxes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Flexible_Box_Layout/Using_CSS_flexible_boxes Flexibility: A JavaScript polyfill for Flexbox https://github.com/jonathantneal/flexibility Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets http://sass-lang.com/ Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner http://gruntjs.com/ Gulp: The streaming build system http://gulpjs.com/ Animate.css https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/ A Complete Guide to (CSS) Grid https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/ CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1 https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-css-grid-1-20160929/ Target Safari 7.1 and 8.0 CSS Styles (OSX Yosemite) https://www.lockedownseo.com/target-safari-7-1-and-8-0-css-styles-osx-yosemite/ Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/ Foundation by Zurb http://foundation.zurb.com/ High Performance Responsive Design by Tom Barker (O'Reilly Media)
What this episode covers
We talk about CSS, Flexbox, CS Grids, CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation, Sass and other CSS pre-processors. Our panel this week: Alex Denning from https://alexdenning.com/ and https://masterwp.co/ Jackie D'Elia from https://jackiedelia.com/ Sallie Goetsch from https://wpfangirl.com/ Jonathan Denwood from https://www.wp-tonic.com/ John Locke from Lockedown SEO Episode 138 Table of Contents 0:00 Podcast Intros. 1:49 WordPress New Story #1: The Wix Mobile App, A WordPress Joint https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/ 8:07 WordPress Story #2: Lessons from failing to sell WordPress themes at the start of the gold rush https://alexdenning.com/lessons-sell-wordpress-themes/ 25:08 Main Topic: All About CSS 25:26 What things do you find frustrating about CSS? 27:18 How has CSS changed over the years? 30:16 Flexbox, and the CSS problems it has solved 34:44 The browsers that tend to have browser quirks in 2016/2017 37:02 Do CSS Frameworks make front-end development easier or harder? 42:31 Jackie's workflow with Sass and PostCSS. 50:47 John is still old-school with CSS. 51:48 Sallie's workflow and where she wants to go. 53:40 Email is the final frontier for relatively easy CSS support. 58:47 When will CSS Grid be supported in the majority of browsers? 1:02:39 What are some innovative uses of CSS you have seen this year? 1:07:40 Podcast outros =================== Links Mentioned During Episode 138: A Complete Guide to Flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Using CSS Flexible Boxes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Flexible_Box_Layout/Using_CSS_flexible_boxes Flexibility: A JavaScript polyfill for Flexbox https://github.com/jonathantneal/flexibility Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets http://sass-lang.com/ Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner http://gruntjs.com/ Gulp: The streaming build system http://gulpjs.com/ Animate.css https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/ A Complete Guide to (CSS) Grid https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/ CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1 https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-css-grid-1-20160929/ Target Safari 7.1 and 8.0 CSS Styles (OSX Yosemite) https://www.lockedownseo.com/target-safari-7-1-and-8-0-css-styles-osx-yosemite/ Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/ Foundation by Zurb http://foundation.zurb.com/ High Performance Responsive Design by Tom Barker (O'Reilly Media)
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