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CSS Style Guides - Why don't you have one

Bruce Klopsteins -

'Facebook currently has 6498 color declarations! You don’t get there unless there wasn’t a plan for maintainable markup from the beginning. Since that sounds like a big ol’ mess...'

Source: Our living style guide (Writing maintainable HTML/CSS - RJMetrics

CSS is more than just hacking stuff with Firebug and throwing !importants around.

A style guide is a great way to build some sense of the importance of adherence to a style.
Why:

  • performance

  • maintainability

Make sure you

  • minify your site

  • use preprocessors

How many people first come to CSS by way of having to fix the 6-10 core style sheets that define the site and want to fix link colour of something without bringing down a whole world of shit. Come on web artisans stop making CSS like it is 1999.