Ideas, insights and inspirations.

Building a style-guide in SCSS

March 13, 2014
by Drew Parroccini

For the past two years, I have been using SCSS to build my websites. Developers everywhere have touched on the many benefits of SASS/SCSS compared to LESS and vanilla CSS in the past, so let’s just skip ahead to doing … Continue reading →

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What we learned – Responsive Web Design for a University Magazine

February 4, 2014
by Drew Parroccini

As another site is launched, I’d like to take a minute to look back and see what we did right and what we could do better. This week, we launched a responsive rebuild of Carnegie Mellon Today. Doing a code … Continue reading →

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the grid

December 20, 2013
by Drew Parroccini

About a year ago, I took the plunge in to grid-based web layouts. For a long time, I felt that grids were too restricting for creative design and limited your choices and direction for development. Oh how wrong I was. … Continue reading →

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Developers corner – What we’ve learned: Why.Bryant.edu

November 11, 2013
by Drew Parroccini

Recently, we launched a landing page for Bryant University. This site asked the question “Why Bryant University?” and was completed in a tight two week turn around. Seemed like a walk in the park. It was anything but that. Thanks … Continue reading →

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Mobile app vs. Responsive website for your .edu site – Your audience

September 11, 2013
by Drew Parroccini

This is part 1 of my 3 part blog post about the best solution to your .edu website. Please stay tuned for the following posts. Now that nearly a quarter of web traffic is coming from mobile devices*, we’ve come … Continue reading →

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