Patterns

Copy and Pasting CSS from Blog Posts is LAME

Not all compass plugins are “CSS Frameworks”. They can be full page designs or collections of widgets complete with images and corresponding javascript files. Patterns allow for splitting designs into three parts:

1. Core style support as mixins that can be customized. For example: the blueprint buttons module
2. An editable stylesheet that uses those mixins and documents how they can be customized. There could also be some editable files provided as well, like html, html, or rhtml that demonstrate how to combine those styles with markup. For an example: the blueprint buttons template
3. Static assets like images and javascript files.

Where it makes sense, users can stamp out patterns as many times as they like and give them different names when they do.

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