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Feb 10, 2016

Kickoff 6 and the future

The latest major version of Kickoff was released last November and included many improvements. This post summarises all the important changes that you need to know about.

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Zander Martineau in Kickoff

Feb 12, 2016

How to create custom grids with Kickoff

Kickoff comes bundled with a a simple, but fully responsive, grid system and a similar, but crucially different, Block Grid system. Why the need for two; What does each grid do; and how can you create you own versions of these grids if you have complex design…

Zander Martineau in Kickoff

Sep 4, 2015

Improving the UX of a front-end framework

How we focused on our users for the latest version of Kickoff

Back in May we released v5.0.0 of Kickoff, the focus of this release was to improve the framework’s UX. What does that mean? Can…

Zander Martineau in Kickoff

Feb 10, 2016

Add responsive helper classes to your project

Kickoff doesn’t include responsive helper classes by default, but I created some for a recent project. Assuming your Sass breakpoint variables (in _variables.scss) look something like this:

/**
 *  Breakpoints
 *…

Zander Martineau in Kickoff

Jun 28, 2016

Kickoff 7 released 🎉

Version 7 of Kickoff might not seem like a massive difference from version 6, but in the ~6 months between the two releases a lot has happened. Below I will highlight some of the major changes and upgrades that the framework has had.

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Zander Martineau in Kickoff

Feb 10, 2016

How to painlessly move Kickoff’s assets directory

Kickoff’s assets directory resides in the root of the repo, it contains the framework’s source and compiled files. What if you needed the assets directory, not to be served from there but from another location? For example, a Wordpress theme…

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