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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.
Related
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Does anyone know a good place to learn css? When I say css I do not mean how rules are matched . The w3school tutorials do a good job showing how changing certain properties effect a single element, but it doesn't show you how to bring all these skills together to build something bigger. Thanks
There is some genious technology called "learning by doing". I would really recommend you to do this ;-)
Think of something somebody could need and build a website. There are plenty of websites which provide you with material:
http://www.cssbasics.com/
http://blog.jm3.net/2007/03/16/the-only-ten-things-to-know-about-css/
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/
AND last but not least NEVER ever refer to w3school.com because of http://w3fools.com/
I'd first like to point out that w3schools, although a good place to start, should ultimately be abandoned once you feel the need to explore further.
A great resource for CSS is MDN's (Mozilla Developer Network) here.
There is also a list of separate tutorials here.
The best place to learn CSS is Google. Seriously, if you want to build something bigger, you bring little things together and make something bigger out of them. By trial and error as well as researching on Google for some certain features, you can learn CSS and build something bigger.
Andy Clarke has written my two favorite books on CSS and web design at large. I recommend his latest - Hard Boiled Web Design:
http://www.hardboiledwebdesign.com/
I find that Mozilla Developer Network has the best documentation for most web technologies, as seen here
Anyways, here's their CSS tutorial
Best idea is to get some template from web and try to remake it - trying to change sth bigger gives you better overview of whole thing. Than You can try to make sth yourself from scratch.
I think www.codepupil.com plans to offer CSS lessons in the future.
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I've been using Paint.NET to create mockups for my web application. They're pretty, and it's not hard to save the constituent graphical elements. However, the process of getting my layout into CSS is completely manual and time-consuming.
I'm aware there are better tools out there for this. Should I be looking at DreamWeaver? I'm not looking for any auto-generated web or data access functionality, and I'm happy to code all the behavior myself. I'm mostly looking for a great-looking layout editor that understands both layered imaging and CSS. (Preferably, one that can map a layered image to HTML and generate initial CSS with the right styling.)
Thanks in advance for any and all insight!
Jeff
A text editor, really.
It's time consuming, yes, but so is doing anything right. I have yet to use any program that builds the design of a website with a level of markup quality that I find even remotely acceptable. Where you may give a div a class of userInfo, most layout programs might give that div a class of style12 or something equally unhelpful. This results in unmaintainable markup, which is especially hard to build into a web application.
So learn how to do it by hand, and then do it by hand.
Axuer can be used to take mockups/prototypes and export as HTML/CSS: http://www.axure.com/
I only ever used it for prototyping.
There are no apps that will make it a css3, they apps that exist will give you a lot of image sprites and css2 and a lot of bugs you have to fix manually :/
So suggest coding it manually or hiring someone who does it(Kinda cheap these days even I would do it if I get paid well enough)
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Why Views are not used in widely in Drupal?
The question is so vague.
Disadvantage of using Views module? One of the disadvantages I can think of is its difficulty to configure it properly. Too many configurations needed to make things work.
p.s. this should move to Drupal Answers.
Your question should really be "why do some programmers discourage the use of Views in Drupal?"
And the answer would be because of the massive amount of extra page overhead and extraneous markup that's generated by the module. Those of us who care about DOM complexity and semantic markup wouldn't touch Views with a 10 foot pole on a normal day, preferring to write quick custom modules to output code that we have full control over (and I mean full control without having to override countless template files for specific Views/display modes).
Don't get me wrong, Views is excellent for what it is and a newcomer to programming in Drupal would likely find it very useful. Also there are many, many contributed modules that extend Views and many that expose their data in a fashion accessible to Views so you can build some complex, well related queries if you know what you're doing.
I would also echo what Shivan Raptor has said in that the UI for Views is an unwieldy behemoth at the best of times; I'm sure to those who wrote it it's as easy as pie to use but I have been frustrated so many times trying to find how to make the simplest change to a View that I gave up using them altogether (except for Views provided by other modules that are already complete!)
So to summarise, your question's premise is indeed false, but if you wanted to know some of the reasons Views isn't more widely used then you do now :-)
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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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My question may be silly but I think it´s not.
I´m using flex with Ruby on Rails backend to develop rich internet apps. Recently flash has been attacked, an example is Steve Job´s thoughts on Flash.
I think flex is a wonderfull tool, but to be honest I really would rather to have a tool as productive as flex but compliant with open standards.
For me, in a perfect world I would code in MXML just like I do now and Flex Builder would build a pure html5 front-end.
My question is, is it likely to happen? It is allowed to dream anything, right... :-)
Is it likely to happen? No.
Is it allowed to dream anything, yes.
MXML is an XML vocabulary designed to generate ActionScript, which is the underlying language of Flash. Since ActionScript is based on ECMAScript, the same standard as JavaScript, it's possible that MXML could be adapted to output JavaScript. But the reason it doesn't is because JavaScript doesn't yet have the same capabilities as ActionScript.
I doubt that MXML or Flex would ever have an output to HTML. To make that work they would need an HTML version of The Flex Framework, which would most likely be written in JavaScript. It seems very unlikely to me.
I believe one of the sneak peaks at the last Adobe Max conference, they did show a Flash Professional animation exported to HTML5.
[Start Speculation]
I assumed the HTML version was making use of the Canvas elements in HTML5, while resources were most likely PNG.
[End Speculation]
But I honestly have no idea how it actually worked.
You can probably find videos on-line of the sneaks. Good luck!
Simple. MXML was introduced to replace HTML. I doubt they would come where you can generate a HTML 5 generated code. Not possible, and i doubt even adobe would come up too.