Website Redesign Part III - A Base to Start From
Danny Smith
April 7, 2020
I'm trying to keep the CSS as minimal as possible here, but I do want a decent blank slate to work from. So I've normalised browser styles with normalize.css and set up some of my own base styles. - Reset some basic styles to the way I like them. - Set up some variables and use them for base colours and typography. - Remove styles from all lists that have a class - they're probably part of the UI, not the content. - Remove styles from links that have a class - same reason. - Set default link styles for body copy. - Remove all animations and transitions for people that prefer not to see them. I'm sure these will change over time, but here they are for now... A starting point for article typography Since I'm writing on this site now, there'll be a lot more written content. My Content-first value means I should probably start with that, while my Simplicity value means I should probably ignore layout and start by making the article copy as beautiful and readable as I can. So taking a leaf out of Frank Chimero's book, I'm starting with a very very simple set of styles for my articles. I'll focus in on this soon but until I choose a better typeface, is set to Georgia. Like Frank, I still like it.
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