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Comment on Friday’s Five: Week 6 by Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:59:43 +0000

@ d - at first it is a little unclear, but once you see it, it really clicks.

Thanks Liam, got a favorite out of the sites?

Comment on Friday’s Five: Week 6 by liam

liam — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:42:17 +0000

Nice collection yet again, particularly love the pick of sites this time nice one.

Comment on Friday’s Five: Week 6 by d

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:11:30 +0000

The Round 5 logo kind of sucks. It’s hard to read.

Comment on CSS Frameworks, just make your own by Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:48:56 +0000

i can understand your point about using a huge library or framework that you essentially retrofit to your own needs. Scaling things back and peeling away what you know you won’t use can be rather time consuming.

With that said i think starting from a framework can save time and reduce initial re-work.

(i’ll admit that i’m more than likely bending the definition of a CSS framework and applying it to a very simple template and its default CSS.)

Obviously the best way to go is to build your own framework because its no different than finding a great cup of coffee - which is always at home because it’s made just the way you like it.

Comment on CSS Frameworks, just make your own by Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:39:22 +0000

It seems like everyone so far has similar understandings, in that the overall idea and concept of using a “framework” is more important than “the” framework.

Depending on the project you would be right Adam. Some of the extra bloat within frameworks might be overkill for a simple site.

Thanks for the responses

Comment on CSS Frameworks, just make your own by Adam

Adam — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:32:34 +0000

I’m a new fan of Tripoli (http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/), which is sort of like a mega-reset.css. Frameworks, in my experience, are overkill for small sites, and you’re better off writing a custom one for big sites, based on the individual site needs.

Comment on Friday’s Five: Week 6 by pligg.com

pligg.com — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:21:53 +0000

Friday’s Five: Week 6 | ifoh designs

Another great week to wrap up with the 5 best picks of the week: logos, websites, blog posts, photos, and illustrations, check it out!

Comment on CSS Frameworks, just make your own by Toon

Toon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:24:10 +0000

Another to put forward is……

http://csswizardry.com/typogridphy/

By Harry Roberts.

Great Article

Comment on CSS Frameworks, just make your own by Create Sean

Create Sean — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:32:09 +0000

I took the CSS blank template in CSS Mastery and added defaults that I like to work with. I also have a default xhtml page that I use with naming conventions that I am comfortable and familiar with.

With every new project I open these two file, save as and get to work. It makes life much easier.

Comment on CSS Frameworks, just make your own by Brian G

Brian G — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:08:14 +0000

I tried out BluePrint on a design I did, and I was amazed by how quickly I was able to do some pretty complex things, however I still have to do a whole bunch of fancy finangling to get things proper.

Here’s the BluePrint version: http://www.allnewcomics.com/00_newSite.html

I kind of roll my own, which sort of incorporates what you said.

Back a six or so years ago when I was building TSN.ca as a standards compliant table-less css based site, I came up with a type.css, navs.css, and layout.css trio of conventions which got imported from a basic.css. Basic was just that, base fonts so that Netscape 4.7 users could see the site (and see that they needed to upgrade), the others all did things like set typefaces, and set navigation styles, and finally set column widths (and have any fancy things inside of them).

Nowadays I do something similar except it has reset.css, type.css, and navs.css with a base CSS which formats the layout, specifies grids, and anything not connected with the other three.