As does my stupidity

I’ve been continuing on with my site redesign, which means I continue to use Sass. I’m dead serious with the title of this post, too. Not just Sass, but Compass as well. Sass would be good by itself, but the stuff that Compass puts in, especially it’s CSS3 module. I have used the border-radius and box-shadow includes enough now, that writing them in regular CSS seems an incredible chore.

I only have to write this:

@include border-radius(10px 0px 0px 10px);

To achieve this:

-moz-border-radius:10px 0px 0px 10px;
-webkit-border-radius:10px 0px 0px 10px;
-o-border-radius:10px 0px 0px 10px;
-ms-border-radius:10px 0px 0px 10px;
-khtml-border-radius:10px 0px 0px 10px;
border-radius:10px 0px 0px 10px;

You can see why this is awesome. If you can’t, you should stop reading. No, seriously though, how many of you actually write all of those in CSS? I don’t. I write the one for -moz, -webkit, and the last one. Compass is covering ALL of them, so in effect, it is doing more than I originally would have, and I’m writing less. So how did my stupidity grow? Good question.

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I have a ton of images, now what?

By now, I would think most of you know how to use sprites. They are extremely useful, and keep the number of http requests down to a minimum. You have this png file that you work on in Photoshop, and you keep adding to it, saving it and whatever else. Get’s time consuming right? At least a little, so shut up you nay sayers. Wouldn’t it be great if there was an easier way? Damn straight!

Thirsty? Drink some Lemonade!

Well Compass makes it easy now, and you don’t need to use Photoshop to do it! Compass has merged with Lemonade to make doing this a cinch. With each new iteration of this framework, something awesome gets added, and this is just plain cool. Now you can take a bunch of images you have and make a sprite on the fly with them. Here is how you go about it.

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