bjorkoy.com — Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
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stylepileAug 5, 2007
Exactly!
officialtwitterAug 5, 2007
Amazing variety of comments on this. You'd think it was an article on SEO....
hotnsourAug 6, 2007
now what we really need here is a script/tool to process a directive file that combines the existing framework of Blueprint with custom (meaningful) classes, ids, etc.so you design away and use the framework as desired, add a few descriptive directives to translate the css and BAM! coolness++
Closed AccountAug 6, 2007
pfft no one cares about your s**tty yellow folders
glesicaAug 7, 2007
straight forward?! are you joking? css is anything BUT straight forward. the basic rules and concept are easy to grasp, yes. but if good design is straight forward with it why are there so many sites dedicated to teaching people how to use it and how to do "tricks" with it? even just the IE fixes are too complicated for a casual (non-professional) web designer to handle easily. this isn't targeted at pros necessarily, it's targeted at anyone who might find it useful... and i'm guessing that's quite a few people judging by the number of problems people seem to have with CSS
smuikasAug 7, 2007
So true. Yahoo Grids works a little better than this, I think.Plus, why is their sample site so damn ugly? Ugh.
joeyjojoAug 8, 2007
Tables are a logical way to layout anything. It's how it's always been done, for the most part. There's nothing wrong with the concept of tables. There are things to argue against in the use of actual table tags, but the concept of tables...ie rows and columns...ie a GRID is a very sound design concept to use.I do agree that the IDs should be more semantic, but I'm also pragmatic, and there are definitely benefits to using a system like this.
appletalkAug 9, 2007
He didn't. Read the entire page
styleboostAug 9, 2007
Bra jobba, Olav!
bhazzardSep 8, 2008
I can understand this as being helpful in creating small websites where maintainability are not a primary focus. I also think that the style rules are of great educational benefit to those who would like to learn to use the CSS box model for proper grid layouts.However, please before styling any large applications or web sites with any css that requires you to use class and id names that are style-oriented, rather than semantically oriented, consider the cost to maintainability. I'd hate to be in the shoes of a web developer or designer hired to redesign a site coded with style-oriented tags. Instead of changing a few css rules and marveling in the satisfaction of seeing those changes cascaded through the entire site, he/she would have to recode every single bit of html on the website.For a great example of how CSS was intended to be used, check out the famous CSS Zen Garden @ www.csszengarden.com it has many wildly different designs based on one unaltered html file. If you had to choose between redesigning a site coded like the css zen garden, or a site coded like a framework like this mandates, which would you choose?I'd like to point out that I am not downgrading the efforts of the Blueprint developers. This tool will surely be useful, I just hope that people can understand the consequences of coding in this way. As people who have a great impact on the mass media that is the WWW, we have a responsibility to always move forward with new ideas. I feel that style-oriented tags are an archaic idea, and they should be avoided when possible.