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Utilizing master CSS files to speed up design

Utilizing master CSS files to speed up design

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Utilizing master CSS files to speed up design

- Hi there, I'm Sue Jenkins, and welcome to Productivity Tips for Web Designers. In this week's lesson, I'll show you how to save time during web development by creating and using a master CSS file. As master file is any time-saving file that you can use at the start of a project to jump start your development. A CSS master file is a file that contains all of your default CSS style information that you know you're going to use with every single project. It can contain things like styles for a body, heading one, heading two, p, header, footer, article, aside, links, lists, and so forth. You can easily make your own master CSS file, or use an existing one provided by a third party, like Reset CSS by Eric Meyer, or Twitter Bootstrap by Twitter. Or, if you're starting your web project using a free or premium template, the master CSS file will already be provided to you with the template. Master files are extremely helpful and can be huge time savers by helping you eliminate redundant…

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