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Code 301 - SMACSSify Exercise

Make sure you have read the SMACSS documentation before working on this assignment. The documentation and guidelines below are open to interpretation, rather than hard and fast guidelines that must be adhered to. Be careful not to spend a lot of time debating the exact correct file for a specific selector; rather, organize your selectors in a way that is meaningful to your project and will make it easier to find and modify those selectors in the future.

General Guidelines:

  • Styling should progress from broadest to most specific
  • base.css should contain any general styling on top of what is provided by a reset.css or normalize.css file (these files will be discussed in further detail in lecture)
    • Apply to elements such as body and main
    • Examples include styling of overall font and background color
  • layout.css should contain general positioning on the page
    • Apply to elements such as header, footer, nav, aside
    • Classes and IDs can be included here
  • modules.css should contain smaller components on the page
    • Apply to elements such as list items, individual images, specific paragraphs
    • Classes and descendant selectors should primarily be included here
  • state.css should contain any styling that changes upon user interaction or state change
    • Apply to hover state, before or after clicking on a link, focus and blur effects
    • Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements should be included here
  • theme.css should contain small changes on top of all other normal styling
    • Applying temporary changes, such as a holiday theme

Instructions

Plan to spend about 5 minutes reading through this document before getting started on the code.

After that, follow the instructions below to fork and clone this repository, and then spend about 45 minutes working in the starter code.

  1. Fork and then clone the repository from the link provided by the instructor in Slack into your ~/codefellows/301 directory, and navigate into that repo.
  2. Create a new branch using your name: git checkout -b firstname-lastname
  3. Create a copy of the starter-code directory with the copy's name being the your first name and last name (cp -r starter-code firstname-lastname) and navigate into that directory (ex: cd sam-hamm).
  4. Start by reading through the HTML and CSS files to see how they are interconnected.
  5. Create the following files: base.css, layout.css, and modules.css, and link them into the HTML file.
  6. Save the code, and do a Git "add" and "commit".
  7. Following SMACSS conventions, move the individual CSS rules from style.css into the appropriate new CSS file. Feel free to refactor and optimize the individual CSS rules and HTML file as needed as you go through this process.
  8. As you work, verify the styling is maintained in the browser.
  9. When everything has been removed from style.css, delete the file, and delete the link from the HTML file.
  10. Save the code, and do a Git "add" and "commit".
  11. Respond to the questions in the README.md of the starter code.
  12. When finished, push your branch back to your fork on GitHub, and merge it into master. Then, make a pull request back from your branch to the original Code Fellows repo. If you are unsure what to do, ask a TA or instructor.