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Compass is a stylesheet authoring tool that uses a the Sass stylesheet language to make your stylesheets smaller and your web site easier to maintain. Compass provides ports of the best of breed css frameworks that you can use without forcing you to use their presentational class names. It’s a new way of thinking about stylesheets that must be seen in action!

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What the Community is Saying about Compass

“     Compass is exactly how I expect a CSS framework should work.
Code less, do more. Wickedly cool.”
— Lorin Tackett

“     [code written with compass] is amazingly beautiful! It is a complete pleasure to work around. I truly feel like it is the first big “whoa” I’ve had since I read Zeldman’s book years ago!”
— Margaret Shear

More quotes on Twitter.

Want maintainable, semantic CSS? Compass will show you the way.

• Getting Started – Download, Install, and set up your first project in minutes.
• Supported Frameworks – Summary of each supported framework, ported version, status, etc.
  • Compass Core Documentation
  • Blueprint Documentation
  • YUI Documentation
  • 960.gs Documentation
• Best Practices – How to easily build a Semantic web page using Compass.
• Command Line Tool – Full documentation and usage examples for the compass comand-line utility.
• Application Server Integration – How to configure your application server to use Compass.
  • Ruby on Rails Integration
  • Merb Integration
  • Staticmatic Integration
  • Sinatra Integration
  • Webby Integration
  • Jekyll Integration
• Patterns – Copy and pasting CSS from a blog post is lame.
  • Using Patterns – Use others’ designs to save time while keeping your page semantic.
  • Sharing Patterns – Share your designs for whole pages or UI widgets. Effortlessly distribute bug fixes to your users.
• Compass Plugins – A list of available plugins for compass.

Bugs Reports, Discussions, Support

If you are getting an error about undefined constants or mixins, it’s probably because you don’t have the latest version of haml. Read the Getting Started page for installation instructions.

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Have an idea for a feature?

Discuss it on the mailing list

Know CSS like the back of your hand?

Compass needs some great designers to help kick start the plugin ecosystem. With compass, for the first time, designers can truly share designs in a semantic, customizable way. Please contact me if you would like to participate in the brainstorming and development of this new frontier.

Have a favorite framework that’s not supported?

Compass has a plugin infrastructure that makes it easy to build your own and distribute it. Read Adding Frameworks to Compass. See the 960.gs Plugin for a concrete example.

Want to help support compass in other frameworks?

You just need to implement an installer that understands the directory structure of the framework and a command line switch. Contact me for details and then fork, modify, commit, push, request pull.

Can you code in Ruby?

Read the ToDo List. Then fork, modify, commit, push, request pull. Might want to check in with the mailing list first to make sure it’s not already being worked on.

Want to make sure we don’t break stuff?

So do we. If you have good ideas for how to QA a visual project where browser support is a major issue, We’re all ears. Hopefully we won’t screw up the frameworks during porting, but you never know.

Are you a Designer?

The Compass website is going to need some love eventually. Let us know if you’d be willing to help.

Want to help promote Compass?

Great! You can help document it here on this wiki, or go evangelize out on the ’net.

Want to give us money?

pfff. That’s lame. Your help is much more appreciated. Unless it’s a lot of money.