Mihaela Jurković

Job title:

Prkos, owner

Mihaela Jurković is an owner of a small Croatian web development shop. Drupal, Inkscape and linux are the most common words in her open source dictionary. In her free time she also enjoys photography, hiking, TED talks and lolcats.

Session title:

Smart CSS theming with Sass and Compass

Session summary:

Analyzing design and creating a CSS strategy before the coding is started is always a good practice. Sass and Compass can enable us to integrate into that process even more tightly making a clearer connection between the design concept and the implemented CSS.

This presentation will show how to adjust your thinking and some processes when using Sass and Compass to maximize long-term efficiency and minimize the time it takes to reconnect with the project after a period of inactivity or for a new themer to get into the project details.

This presentation is focused on introductory concepts of how to approach coding with Sass efficiently, but it doesn't explain the basic Sass syntax, how to install and configure Sass and Compass nor how they are used in particular Drupal themes.

Even though knowledge of basic Sass concepts is useful it isn't required to follow the presentation. A lot of insights about coding CSS efficiently can be gained even by those who don't have any Sass experience, and they can also use this presentation as a research about Sass, whether it could bring benefits to their work and whether they would like to learn more about it.