About

Les is a web designer and front end developer at Media Two Interactive in Raleigh, NC. His experience ranges from garage band sites to enterprise level front-end templating. His roots are in photography and he is passionate about all things design. Once upon a time Les developed almost exclusively in Adobe Flash but today you can find him pushing the latest web standards with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Always thirsty for knowledge he is an active member in the design community in both online discussion and offline meet-ups. He loves to talk shop so chat him up if you want to discuss Typography, HTML5 or anything in between.

Presentation: Tame your CSS3 with Sass

CSS3 is awesome right? But then there are all the vendor prefixes, the changing syntaxes and writing the same style over and over again. Enter Sass, the CSS meta-language that can solve your CSS3 woes and so much more. Your presenter Les James has been writing his CSS with Sass for about two years now. He will show you how Sass can make adding complex CSS3 styles to your site easy. Your style sheet will become more flexible than ever with Sass variables and mixins. You’ll whip specificity into shape with nesting and parent selectors. You’ll dominate colors with Sass’s built in manipulation functions. The best part of all there is no crazy syntax to learn, at the heart it’s still the CSS you know and love but with all the awesome benefits of a programming language.