Scalable And Modular Architecture For CSS (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Interesting ideas presented in a way, that is very easy to understand. Everything is systematic, just like the idea behind this way of writing css and thinking about creating web-sites in general.I really liked the examples and the real world situations described in each section. I don't think it will change much may workflow, because I already use most of the authors ideas in my work, but there is definitely a lot of useful stuff, which we tend to neglect there. Highly recommend the book to anyone who is involved in the process of website creation. First of all, after reading this book, I plan on applying the SMACSS approach to my web development projects. The concepts described here form a sound pattern and structure for designing modular front-end components that increase your likelihood of yielding maintainable code. I learned quite a bit from the book and greatly enjoyed its brevity.The downside is the disjointed way it's laid out, seemingly jumping from topic to topic without really tying it all together. The reader is left to assemble the big picture while hacking through specifics. The approach would have been better communicated by laying out a high-level map and referring to it whenever jumping into the specifics and then tying it all together with a single comprehensive example at the end. Regardless, it serves as a good introduction to the idea of extending modular, component-based software design all the way to stylesheets. More books are sure to follow and expand on these ideas, but it's a good starting point as of now (mid-2012).
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Great book, a must read for beginning front end developers.
—Trisket114
A short manual to make your CSS more maintainable.
—Peeps
