Creating a color scheme

Creating a color scheme is both an art and a science.  There are places online that suggest color schemes like Adobe Kuler.  But what if you wanted to create your own color scheme?  Well, using LESS – it’s straightforward. Complementary @base: #663333;...

Escaping LESS parameters

For example purposes, here is a LESS mixin that looks something like this: .make-blue( @selector ) { @(selector) { background: blue; } }   To call it, I originally did something like this: .make-blue( ‘div’ );   That produced output like this:...

Compiling LESS Files

Recently, I gave up on using Eclipse in favor of NetBeans.  I had also considered Visual Studio for my Windows machine, but NetBeans was easy to setup a project that did not get in the way of the folder hierarchy and worked well with my local WAMP setup. As I started...

Using LESS in Eclipse

If you are trying to use LESS files in Eclipse, you will notice that those files are viewed as plain text – no indenting, no color-coding, no outlining, etc.  If you want to fix this up so that these LESS files behave like CSS files, do the following: Install...