We all know the feeling when you get a legacy project to work with. You are hoping that the previous developer followed the best practices or had similar way of doing things as you do. In an ideal world there’s someone around to give you the handover or some documentation, but you are still hoping that the project is clear and easy to read.
We all also know the feeling when we open the project and there’s pixels mixed with points or 15 different paragraph values (of what we can quickly see) and we dread to check tjhe project any further. Usually at this point the style guide (if there ever was one) is also already out dated and doesn’t help in letting you know which font size to use and which to ignore.
This isn’t only a “legacy project” problem. I’m sure you have all been in a situation when the site is nearly finished – and then the customer wants to change the font size. Or the color shade is a tad off. If you at this point haven’t used variables, you need to change all occurrences of these values manually.
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Importance of variables
We all know the feeling when you get a legacy project to work with. You are hoping that the previous developer followed the best practices or had similar way of doing things as you do. In an ideal world there’s someone around to give you the handover or some documentation, but you are still hoping that the project is clear and easy to read.
We all also know the feeling when we open the project and there’s pixels mixed with points or 15 different paragraph values (of what we can quickly see) and we dread to check tjhe project any further. Usually at this point the style guide (if there ever was one) is also already out dated and doesn’t help in letting you know which font size to use and which to ignore.
This isn’t only a “legacy project” problem. I’m sure you have all been in a situation when the site is nearly finished – and then the customer wants to change the font size. Or the color shade is a tad off. If you at this point haven’t used variables, you need to change all occurrences of these values manually.
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