From the course: CSS: Design Systems and Architectures
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Base styles - CSS Tutorial
From the course: CSS: Design Systems and Architectures
Base styles
- [Instructor] By this stage, you've figured out your text editor settings, development environment, formatting guidelines, and naming conventions. You're ready to finally start writing some code. Whether you're using one of the previously discussed methodologies or your own, you should start with your base CSS styles. As you build out your CSS architecture, remember to start with generic styles and only get as specific as you need. Reuse wherever possible and refactor throughout the process. It's rare to write perfect code the first time around, so refactor as you go along. If you're not familiar with refactoring, it's the practice of rewriting the code to improve it. That might mean just fixing indentation and formatting or revising class names to shorten them, make them more functional, or more efficient. Or finding ways to reuse styles and reduce the number of inefficient or unused CSS. Write with the intention of continuous improvement. If you're using a CSS preprocessor, start…
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