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I have been reading Twitter bootstrap for quite a while now. It gives pre-made functionality for so many things using CSS classes, I can create anything. Along with a lot of jQuery plugins already integrated in the package.
On the other hand I see there is a theme with the name responsive is available in Wordpress which gives same functionality. I am confused to choose what should I choose for my upcoming-project. I am going to use Wordpress for the project.
I need to know the following.
Which one is easy to learn? Responsive documentation doesn't seem to be user friendly.
Is it fine to use bootstrap in wordpress theme? Do i have to do much customization than responsive if i use bootstrap?
Will using responsive give me any benefit over bootstrap and in the future how can i reuse responsive theme.
I don't know what responsive theme or types of customization you are referring to.
While I can't speak to the specific theme, I can say a few things about bootstrap.
Bootstrap offers lots of flexibility when it comes to a responsive layout as witnessed in the docs. You can use fixed or fluid layouts and nest and offset content.
Bootstrap offers a lot of flexibility in aesthetic choices as well. Aside from customizing the css yourself there are free options available including those on bootswatch .
If you need an example or theme of bootstrap/wordpress integration you can find one at BootstrapWP.
Even if you don't want the look and feel of the bootstrap components you can still use it for the responsive features. It's not terribly hard to set up and is very reusable. It's also maintained very well and has excellent documentation. It gets my vote.
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I'm a beginner in web designing & stackoverflow and I apologize in advance for any silly questions I will be asking
I'm using Foundation framework (CSS only version) to design my site without SASS & Compass, and I'm wondering what are the disadvantages besides being unable to build with mixins?
Is there any other way to customize Foundation's components without mixins? Because I know it's not recommended to edit foundation.css or any other foundation files.
Is it fine if I use Foundation to build pages as View for CodeIgniter?
You will be unable to use the full power of SASS, including variables, mixins, nesting, etc. It is definitely more difficult to customize Foundation without using SASS. If you are a beginner to CSS, you should learn the basics before trying to tackle SASS. However, I highly recommend learning it in the near future as it really helps speed up protoyping and layout development.
You can override foundation.css with your custom.css file. You can also do some basic customization here and download your own build: http://foundation.zurb.com/download.php#customizeFoundation
Sure. Some folks have already created some custom integrations: https://github.com/meridiansoftech/meridian_ci_codebase I have built CakePHP apps with Foundation. Sometimes you have to alter the helpers to output certain HTML to integrate with Foundation or whatever framework you choose to use.
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What is the best CSS framework out there? Also is it better to use CSS framework or use custom css ? the site am willing to design is about 50 pages ... and I am confused whether to use css framework or built my own custom css
i'd recommend Blueprint and 960. I've worked with both and they're equally good in the sense they make grid based layouts easier.
Having said that, I try to go custom 99% of the time because you have more control and you don't need to "hack" the framework to suit your needs.
So if you have the time, make your own framework with a good CSS reset to start with, some typography settings and layout element defaults that you think you'll use quite often.
If you are looking for a CSS framework in the same way Jquery is a Javascript Framework (a bundle of libraries to make your work easier) I think you will have to look for CSS-dynamic generated content.
The only one I know (and AFAIK the best one out there), being a Rails Developer is SASS (you can get more info on Railcast. SASS is actually a
I think it could really cut you some time.
I know there is a porting to PHP in progress (phamlp) but don't know its state.
Otherwise, you could install rails and use it to compile SASS obtaining CSS-formatted stylesheets.
https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki
Don't think there really is much of a 'framework' for css, but OOCSS is the best thing you can do for yourself and all future developers on the project.
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I have decided to use framework to develop my own custom wordpress theme? But I'm confused which one to use?
Or should I continue to write all up codes myself. I use 960 as css framework and jQuery as js library.
Any help will be cordially appreciated.
I would vote for famous and feature-rich Thesis Theme Framework.
Thesis Home
You can find out more through a poll conducted here:
Poll – Which WordPress Theme Framework To Use?
I always have used http://wpframework.com/. It is a beautiful framework, community driven, and lock tight. Without all the unnecessary bells and whistles of the costly packaged frameworks.
I'm currently using the Thesis Theme Framework... but the company (DIY Themes) is having some problems and for now, the Thesis future is somewhat unknown, with some partners leaving the company, Pearson (the Thesis creator) with problems with Matt (The Wordpress creator), etc...
So for now, I wouldn't recommend Thesis. I'd go with the Genesis Framework or Headway. Headway is easy to configure with a visual editor which makes things very easy (Thesis is not as easy as it seems, though).
I used Thesis until recently when I switched to the Frugal. Thesis is good if you are at ease with codes.
Frugal is a no brainer and one can actually come up with a totally unique layout just by clicking the mouse. No need to learn any codes, just takes a little bit of time to get use to the maze of options available.
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This is at the framework level, not dealing directly with CSS, so posting to SO.
I just learned about the existence of CSS frameworks. 960 Grid System seems pretty awesome, then I found Blueprint, which seems to do the same thing and more.
Is there a better word than "framework" to categorize this?
Are there any other products in this category?
In response to one of the comments Link to a site designed using a CSS framework (Blueprint, 960,etc)?, "how many example frameworks do you want? he just listed two of them.", I'd love to have more than two examples, unless those are the only two in the running.
Blueprint,
which is "the original CSS framework"
960 Grid
System, which is a tool to have a
grid underlying your screen.
YUI
2: Grids, similar to 960? The rest of YUI is more similar to JQuery?
YAML: Yet Another Multicolumn Layout, is what it says on the tin. Has the most SO results.
Elements, which also focuses somewhat on your work process.
Tripoli.
A CSS Framework.
Here are a few more for your list
http://elements.projectdesigns.org/
http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/
http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/a-css-framework
Look at Elastic CSS Framework. Its main feature is that you are not enforced to have exactly N columns.
I think the word "framework" is okay to use here because it denotes a collection of useful, reusable components that abstract away the repetitious and error-prone aspects of a project and allow you, the developer, to focus on the task at hand.
Traditionally a framework is an programming API (which these CSS frameworks are not) so you could be pedantic and say that these CSS foundations are not frameworks.
Seems like "framework" in this case is more like a "scaffold" used in construction, and less like an actual programming MVC setup.
There are also:
The Golden Grid
Emastic - CSS Framework
Malo - CSS Framework
Fluid Grid System - http://fluid.newgoldleaf.com/
Main benefit is that it can contain nested containers.
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Can someone point me to a good Drupal Photo Gallery tutorial or book. I am trying to create a photo gallery in a grid view. However, I do not want the titles, etc. to be displayed with the photos. Also, I want to place a border around the photos to make them stand out a bit.
I am not that well versed in PHP so I want the solution to be handled completely with modules and as little coding as possible.
Here's a module that puts together the Views/CCK/Imagefield configuration for a gallery: http://drupal.org/project/views_gallery
What's great about this approach is that you then end up with a cck/views-based gallery and can easily tweak it to anything you want (like not wanting to display titles, having images pop up in a lightbox with a caption, etc.) and reuse the display of images elsewhere easily.
You can build your own photo gallery using Drupal modules like cck, views, imagefield and imagecache. Just search Google or Drupal.org, there are plenty of how-to's out there.
Here is a recent tutorial video: http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/148
If you are interested in learning how to use Drupal, with little/no php coding, you should take a look at Using Drupal by the Lullabot team. It covers a lot of different cases, one of them is how you can build an image gallery like you describe.
Here's a tutorial that really helped me when I was doing the same thing for the first time: http://www.primalmedia.com/blog/building-better-drupal-photo-gallery