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Practical, maintainable CSS
Continuing my new years resolution to get better at public speaking, I have now given two talks in 2009 and am signed up to two more. It really does get easier! The last one I gave was (in hindsight) really quite fun.
Last Wednesday I spoke about what I do to the Girl Geeks of Brighton at the Eagle. An event with a good community atmosphere and fantastic food, there were lots of new faces there too.
Here are my slides from the event, they contain some of the same material to my Barcamp presentation however its much more from a practical perspective aimed at an audience with a variable base level of knowledge in CSS.
If you are interested, the slides with notes are available online. I also used Silverback to record the presentation.
Video on Vimeo
Slides on Slideshare
If you see me about at SxSW next week, come and say hi :)
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CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS
I gave a talk this morning at BarCamp London 5 about CSS Systems, a new term that I am using to define a top-down approach to architecting a site's CSS.
A CSS System is a reusable set of content-oriented markup patterns and associated CSS created to express a site's individual design. It is the end result of a process that emphasizes up-front planning, loose coupling between CSS and markup, pre-empting browser bugs and overall robustness. It also incorporates a shared vocabulary for developers to communicate the intent of the code.
The talk elaborates on this concept, and also describes a number of tricks I use to preempt maintainability issues.
You can view just the slides on SlideShare, but as they might not make sense out of context you can download a PDF of the slides with notes for the complete experience.
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