- Elements CSS Frameworks (Source: Project Designs)
- WYMstyle: a CSS framework (Source: Daniel Reszka)
- YAML CSS Framework (Source: High Resolution)
- YUI Grids CSS (Source: Yahoo)
- Boilerplate CSS Framework
- Blueprint CSS
- Schema Web Design Framework (Source: David Golding Design)
- CleverCSS
- Tripoli Beta CSS Framework (Source: Monc)
- ESWAT Web Project Framework (Source: Philip Karpiak)
- CwS CSS Framework (Source: Content with Style)
- My (not really mine) CSS Framework (Source: That Standards Guy)
- Baseline, “real” baseline grid on the web.
12 of the best CSS Frameworks
Most designers would have heard of the term ‘CSS Frameworks’, for those who don’t know or aren’t sure, here is a brief description from: Wikipedia:
A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks package a number of ready-made options for designing and outlaying a webpage.
Sounds great doesn’t it, something that is going to make designing and developing a website that little bit easier. It will take away the repeating of the same old boring stuff and if you write your framework correctly you will be guaranteed your code will meet W3C recommendations. That will leave you plenty of time to design your site, the fun side of the job!
There are a number of Frameworks you can freely download and use, you will need a fair bit of CSS knowledge, some patience and a fair bit of time to get yourself familiar with the layout. The page layout structure is pretty standard across almost all Frameworks, it could be: Header; Main Content; Sub Content; Local Nav; Main Nav; Footer. They also have simple layout structures: Vertical Nav; Horizontal Nav; One Column; Two Column… The variations on structure goes on and on… Any structure you want, basically.
What I am trying to say is that if you are a serious designer/developer you need to use a good Framework, something that in the long term is going to save you a lot frustrations and time. Maybe you will or already have written your own Framework. I have my own, well two actually. One purely for Wordpress and one for everything else. Not much difference in the two, but I do like to follow a particular method when designing for Wordpress, just my preference.
There is a lot more to CSS Frameworks than I have written here, but I am not going to bore you, download them and try them out. If you don’t like it don’t use, its not for everyone. As with everything else in the world there are a few critics of CSS Frameworks, the pros do outnumber the cons, its all about opinion.
As for me I love them, and I am very grateful to the writers of the following ten CSS Frameworks:
via: speckyboy.com
Otro punto de vista.
Debo decir que nunca fui fanático de utilizar algún framework, creo que en gran medida le quita lo divertido a muchas cosas. Igualmente utilizarlos tiene sus ventajas, mas seguridad en algunos casos, evitar programar desde cero, un soporte, etc.
El debate de si utilizar o no utilizar un frameworks fue muy discutido hace un tiempo, yo sigo pensando exactamente lo mismo que Andrés, prefiero trabajar mas pero conocer mis propias aplicaciones al máximo, que luego cuando aparecen los problemas pasar horas buscando en el código de otra persona donde viene el problema.
por Pablo / via kabytes.com
Tags: CSS, frameworks