Miriam Suzanne

SitePoint: Live Q&A on Toolkits



I did a live Q&A at SitePoint talking about:

  • Customizing Susy for your projects
  • Other ways to do layouts (and why you might not even need a toolkit)
  • How to select a toolkit, or build your very own!

To be clear: now that we have border-box sizing, grid math can be much simpler. Complex math is only required if you are using margin-based gutters. Move your gutters into padding, and the math is simple. That’s why I don’t use Susy (or any grid system) much any more. percentage(1/5) works great in Sass - and flexbox takes care of the rest.

You can read a summary of the conversation as well — but it leaves out some good bits. ;)