CSS is beauty. Yes that is because it adds beauty to your roughly built html pages and texts. It is not harder to beautify a web page by using graphics, but sometimes graphics are expensive when we are talking about overall page load time.

There is always been a big war between CSS and tables. In simple words war between tables based html web pages and tables html web pages. Both of their own pros/cons but CSS make the things simple and better.

When we talk about building multiple column web pages by using table based code or CSS then float theory and floating the elements (columns) in their proper place is always a headache.

960 Grid systems will make these things simpler and cleaner. 960 Grid system is a CSS framework, very easy to use and flexible for making as many as 12 up to 16 column design.

960 basically have predefined Div sections and containers. You don’t need to worry about any floating problems. All you have to do is to use either 12 column container or 16 column container depending on your needs. Then make your own columns by using their grid classes.

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Blueprint is a CSS framework that can save you time and headaches when working on any project that involves HTML and CSS, whether it be with Rails, PHP, or just laying out an HTML page. In this tutorial you will get a look at the inner workings of Blueprint and we’ll take a look at demo application that uses Blueprint to get a better idea of how to use actually use the framework.

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Ever wondered how all those slick “magazine” themes for WordPress and other platforms were created? Many, if not all, were designed using a CSS Grid Framework – at least in essence if not in actual fact. That is, you can use an existing CSS framework or build your own from scratch. While it’s possible to design complex web page layouts without a framework, it’s arguably an act in masochism. In this article you’ll get an overview of the current batch of Frameworks and which you should choose to use.

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WP_Query is a powerful tool to control what comes out of your loop. Today I’m going to teach you all how to use it to make a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category. We’ll be using the 960 CSS framework for the basic layout and reset of our theme, it will chop a lot of work off what’s needed!

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Grid 960 is a CSS Framework that enables developers to rapidly prototype designs. They are excellent tools for creating mock ups. Why? Because they do all the heavy lifting allowing you to get faster results.

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Today I have finished and released the 1kb grid system generator. The generator will create custom fixed 1kb grid systems in valid css / xhtml for rapid prototyping, development and production environments

The 1kb grid system is an awesome little framework by Tyler Tate.

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Well, it’s long overdue – but here’s my first post. I will try to explain a bit how the grid system generator started and what’s coming up!

A few months ago I finally made my first effort to start using a grid system for one of my web projects. I had been looking at various grid systems before but never took that first step.

After some research I decided to start out with the 960.gs grid system. One of the problems I found was that my existing design didn’t fit the 960.gs measurements. So I had two options:

• Rebuild my design to fit the grid system OR
• Rebuild the grid system to fit my design.

As you can see with this site, I decided to create a generator that would calculate the measurements based on my input and create a nice / clean css file that would work with my existing design.

Happy with the final result I figured it could help other people as well so I created this website to host the generator.

After letting Nathan Smith know about it, he sent one tweet out and since that time the site is frequently visited by many people.

The generator has gone through a couple of iterations – adding functionality, changing design and layout and adding new grid system generators as well.

I will continue to build this website and add more generators and resources when I find some spare time.

If you feel there is something missing or perhaps you know of some great resource that can help others, please use this form to submit one! If you like – I will also put your name / URL in the post.

Oh – and WordPress rules, I ditched my custom CMS that I worked on for a LONG time!

CSS frameworks are bloated. CSS frameworks are for people who don’t know how to code. CSS is too simple to implement a framework.

If you’ve ever read a tutorial on a CSS framework, I can guarantee that many comments mimic the previous statements. My guess is that the majority of these comments are stemmed from slight ignorance. Once you take the opportunity to spend some time with 960, you’ll be amazed at how much time can potentially be saved when developing your web applications. At the very least, take ten minutes to review the framework. You can always press the delete key…though I doubt you will!

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How To Use the Grid

The Grid elements are simply defined as classes. Row is row, column is column and widths are defined as grid-unit-number classes (say, guN): gu1, gu2, gu3, gu4, gu5, gu6. If you want to create a column 4 grid units wide, you simply say:
<div>…</div>

If you want to create a row, you just say:
<div>…</div>

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Emastic is a CSS Framework, it’s continuing mission: to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new web spaces, to boldly go where no CSS Framework has gone before.

Why should you use emastic?

It’s:

• Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb)
• Personalized width of the page in (em,px,%)
• Use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid.
• Elastic Layout with “em”s

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