Base Style
This style guide exemplifies the base styles.
Creating a well thought out base style for a new website is one of the most critical parts to ensure an overall successful project progression.
The base style should contain all those basic HTML elements and their variations that will be needed within the website. May it be in standard formatted text, or within custom styled layout components.
The goal is to abstract the element designs just to the right level, so that they can be used in any context without further modifications, but to keep them flexible enough for custom adjustments when needed, without having to overwrite many CSS attributes.
The following markup is a best practice starting point to help you focus on what’s important. It does not include all HTML elements, but as the theme is using normalize.css, elements will still be recoginzably styled, only without further customization.
1.0 Typography
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Base styling is done, when this page has a custom look and is visually structured so that all elements, their relationships, meanings and hierarchy are recognizable.
Minnie Mouse
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Headline H2 is a very common element
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Headline H3 will be used all over the website
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Headline H4 is nice for alternative smaller styles
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Headline H5 is unloved, but can be powerful as a helper class
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Headline H6 is very rare but might be a small alternative
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1.1 Lists and Tables
Make sure you’re not resetting all list elements, because that might come in handy for styling other layout elements, but remain their purpose for formatted text.
What you need to consider
- It’s basically the same
- But different
- And they may also nest other lists:
- may it be another ordered list,
- or an unordered list
- The best part is:
- this boring text ends here!
- Because I really don’t know what else to write here.
- Hope it’ll still be more helpful than lorem ipsum.
- But don’t stop here!
Icon Lists
Tables
| # | Ingredients | Serves 12 | Serves 24 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | milk | 1 quart | 2 quart |
| 2 | cinnamon sticks | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | cloves | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | egg yolks | 12 | 24 |
| 5 | cups sugar | 1 1/2 cups | 3 cups |
| 6 | dark rum | 1 1/2 cups | 3 cups |
1.2 Buttons
A button element should have a class so it can be used as a semantic tag on other interface elements, like the arrows of a slider or a closing tag on a burger menue.
1.3 Forms
Placing form elements on a page should just work without having to apply extra classes or custom wrapping elements. However, a <fieldset> element provides a nice opportunity to group multiple form elements.
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A Nautical End of Year Party
It was another great night of fun, food, dancing, and meeting new people. See the recap below with tons of great photos. If you missed it this year remember there is always next year!
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Ladies Bunco 2025: Roll on!
They rocked and they rolled for Bunco night 2025. Check out the recap below with tons of great photos (thanks Alicia).
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Port City Marina Wilmington Cruise
It was another great SSBC weekend on the water. See the below reacap. For those who couldn’t make it, do your best next year to participate as it was a ton of fun!!!
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B I N G O (The musical variety)
A large (120+) crowd had a great time playing music bingo and eating some great food. See the below details!
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Bald Head 2025 (Good decision)
The weather was great! The crowd was huge. The food was fantastic. The games were challenging and fun (but painful for one). It was another GREAT winner. Thanks to Joe and Alicia (and their team) for their outstanding event. The below recap says it all….
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Beaufort/Oriental Cruise 2025
It was another great SSBC cruise. Based on the fun that was had, it will be a go to next year. Hats off to Len and Cindy for putting this together. See the two recap fliers below.
