Session

The Forgotten Child: Powerful CSS with Rails

Geoffrey Grosenbach, Senior Visionary, Topfunky Corporation

Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal Maritim B

Rails is a powerful framework for producing HTML and XML, but somehow CSS was forgotten! In this presentation you'll learn techniques you can use to make your site more styleable and stylish with features built into Rails. You'll learn about techniques for CSS generation, how to use helpers to tag content in preparation for styling with external CSS, and how to use unobtrusive JavaScript techniques to put the final spit and polish on a design.

If you are part of a large team, using programmatic techniques for generating CSS, styling content can make your site more flexible and customizable by the end user.

If you are a single developer or work on a small team, using the power of Rails to drive your CSS can not only save time, it can also make your site more attractive.

Even if you are not a graphic designer, using these techniques will give you an easy way to add tasteful style to your applications and will amaze your more artistic friends (who spend hours trying to manually achieve the results you can get programmatically).

The presentation will feature real-world examples and also more experimental features that are possible only with the power of Rails.

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