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• CSS

• Professional Growth

Learn along as Philip explains the importance of accessible color contrast in web design, teaches you how to change color contrast on a Mac, and gives you steps to design with good color contrast.

• Accessibility

• Design

Class naming conventions are essential for coherent CSS architecture. Learn to use responsive suffixes, automating classes with sass mixins and sass maps.

• CSS

Philip Zastrow shares his hot take on the new Sass update (version 1.23.0). He discusses the replacements to @import and other changes to the language.

• CSS

• Sass

Philip addresses four common misconceptions about BEM and explains how and why the CSS naming convention of Block Element Modifier helps solve organizational thinking around class names.

• BEM

We're well into the seventh season of our full-stack apprenticeship program. Philip shares why our approach to teaching HTML and CSS to our apprentices assumes nothing.

• Apprenticeship

Philip shares how we're embracing new roles as part of our quest to hone our design skills and make our web projects even better.

• Hammer and Chisel

• Process

Aaron Gustafson reminds us of what it means to make sites performant for everyone in his Maker Series.

• Maker Series Speakers

Meeting client needs can put you in unfamiliar situations. Philip shares our lessons learned when we purchased a starter template for a recent site.

• Process

The Sparkbox team shares multiple perspectives on the importance of Progressive Enhancement for today’s web.

• Culture