![]() They really care about what they create instead of releasing yet another 9,- a month fancy service or an app that costs less than a cup of coffee a day. I have become a fan of INDIE developers like Bryan, people like him do stuff very well and even more important, they care. I mean what else, would George Clooney say. Press CMD + S and your site refreshed everywhere, even at your iPhone or iPad. You barely knew you where using it, I think that’s when software is at it’s best, when it’s important but not in your face. In my (old) WordPress workflow CodeKit was my silenced hero. Not because of lack of features or quality, I mean, I would love to include CodeKit in the mix and let CodeKit handle all my sass, js compiling and optimise img, svg, files but it just doesn’t play nice together with Jekyll. I can’t find a way to include it anymore. It somehow completely positioned itself out of my workflow this way and has become totally useless when I don’t use WordPress. The main problem with my new setup is CodeKit. Never have to deal with logins, passwords, Are you a Robot? Google Verification questions forced upon WP logins, create a post, submit it and wait a few seconds to process because of all bloat WordPress has become. That could be a better workflow in my opinion and I would never have to leave my Coda editor or my favourite Mac apps. What if I could teach them how to use a Markdown editor (very basic functionality), they only have to drop a txt file into my shared Dropbox folder, I get a notification, I alter the Frontmatter a little, Jekyll builds the site and I push all changes to the server. I thought, what if I could only let them write content about their own business, I mean that’s the single thing I can’t do for them even if they want to pay me for maintaining their websites every month as a service. It’s not their core business, especially when you create sites for so many ‘smaller’ companies that can’t hire social media and marketing people and whatnot but they are also very business doing their thing. It’s all fine but after a few months you can see they lose focus and all sites become out of date because they simply don’t like to do it. They all start very promising the first few months, asking a lot of questions about how Yoast SEO works, what to do here and there. Thinking even further along the road, I’ve been creating WordPress sites for so many years because I thought every person in the world could work with a CMS like WordPress, it’s easy to use, “so easy even a caveman can use it”, right? When you can handle Facebook or Twitter you can work with WP backend right? Result is, the people I create websites for, generally don’t want to create posts and pages or maintain their sites by change slideshows, options and the hole shebang. Lovely and kinda easy to install, plus everything is very frontend development heavy, something I like a lot. md files with some Frontmatter in apps like iA Writer and dropping them into a folder while Jekyll creates a page or post based of that simple txt file. To be honest the idea is great and I really like the workflow of writing plain. Since september I tried a to play a little with Static Site generator Jekyll. And of course, WordPress also does a lot of things very very good. If you are not into using the command line, here’s a list of 10 applications that make it simpler to compile Less and Sass files.I’m a follower on CSS-Tricks for so long now and because it’s 2018 I think it’s time for a fresh start or better said critical look at my own workflow.įor almost 10 years I have been building sites with WordPress, I really loved it for so many years until the last few years but switching felt like wearing your shoes on the wrong foot because you got so used to it. but it’s easier to get support and find existing CSS frameworks that support Less and Sass.ĬSS Preprocessors help web designers become more efficient, but compiling them is another story. There are also few other CSS Preprocessors such as Stylus and DtCSS, etc. Sass, on the other hand, feels like a more matured preprocessor and is now supported by both Bootstrap and also the Foundation framework. ![]() Less also gained popularity due to its use in the Bootstrap framework. less files on the fly using JavaScript (although that’s not recommended for production sites). Getting started with Less is much easier since you can compile. There are several CSS preprocessors, but the two most widely used are Less and Sass. Managing the styling of complex sites is now much easier thanks to CSS Preprocessors. With pre-processors we don’t need to scroll to long CSS files or type same things again and again. ![]() Managing CSS files has been a messy affair until CSS preprocessors.
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