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I’m not the biggest fan of Atomic CSS myself. I don’t like all the classes. I like to express my styles in CSS because I find CSS… good. But I appreciate that a lot of people seem to like it, …

Robin Weser’s “The Shorthand-Longhand Problem in Atomic CSS” in an interesting journey through a tricky problem. The point is that when you take on the job of converting something HTML and CSS-like into actual HTML and CSS, there are edge …

One of the challenges we face when implementing class-based atomic styling is that it often depends on a specific breakpoint for context. We can prefix each breakpoint. This works well until we start adding multiple classes. That’s when it becomes difficult to keep a track what relates to what and where to add, remove. or change stuff.

There is this sentiment that you don’t design the homepage of a site first. For most sites, it’s an anomaly. It’s unlike any other page and not something to base the patterns you use for the rest of the site …

Do you design digital products (or websites) and hand design files off to developers for implementation? If you answered yes, settle in! While the should-designers-code debate rages on, we’re going to look at how adding a methodology to your design …

Even if you consider yourself a CSS expert, chances are that at some point on a large project you’ve had to deal with a convoluted, labyrinthine stylesheet that never stops growing. Some stylesheets can feel like a messy entangled web …

• “Atomic” is a browser-based timeline animation tool.
• “Atomic Design” is a design methodology in which you design very small parts and combine them in larger and larger pieces to build a whole.
• “Atomic CSS” is a system in which you

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The following is a guest post by Nick Berens, a senior front-end developer at wisnet.com. Nick and his team have been building websites through custom style guides for years. Over those years, Nick has been building and evolving …