For quick responsive design prototypes, this framework is worth a look:

http://getskeleton.com/

Have a starting framework for most projects that combines 960 for structure and Yahoo’s CSS framework for base, reset and fonts.

This one looks very interesting: “An easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device.”

http://foundation.zurb.com/index.php

Joe Paravisini - 14 January 2011 11:54 AM

...I’ve been looking at this recently but have no had a chance to use it on a site: http://lessframework.com/
Anyone have any experience with it?

Hi Joe, yes, I’ve used LESS Frameworks but it’s now been updated with Frameless Grid - em based, adaptive and very cool IMO (works with old browsers like IE6 but also for super-wide displays, various mobile phones and tablets). No dodgy grid_ classes in your markup either…

To add my two cents, I’ve used several different ones. I predominately use Nathan Smiths 960.gs with the adapt.js - however I will say that I’m moving away from it as a lot of the ‘problems’ with cross-browser are quickly falling away with the recent versions of the browsers, so its easier for me to just code my own to reduce bloat.

If I had to pick another system I would look at Golden, http://code.google.com/p/the-golden-grid/

No room for Stylizer or are you talking totally different way to handle things?

FinPete - 27 October 2011 03:36 PM

No room for Stylizer or are you talking totally different way to handle things?

:D I love Stylizer! I am a very visual person, so it’s my favorite app (after Notepad++).
I bought my license last year.

But it has problems with .less files So I’ve found myself using it less.

I absolutely must agree with Brandon on this one. It makes a lot of sense…to me anyways .Thanks

Stylizer looks nice, but I’ve found over the years that using a graphical css tool actually adds an unnecessary additional step from moving things from graphical to text.

With the development of firebug we’ve stopped using any other css tools, and the frameworks are all nice, but again, over the years we’ve developed our own framework that doesn’t need us to ‘adapt’ things. it’s already set up in the way we intend to use it. We could do this with one of those grid systems, but as they didn’t really start getting popular until after we’d already gotten in our neat little rut I don’t see us moving away from the way we do it.

Heck I’d bet most of those grid and frameworks started out just like what we did, and most developers do. Build our own, and they expanded on it.

So, short story long, we use a framework we developed based on our style of layout. Then adds/changes are done about 95% in firebug.

For text, we use Notepad++ across the board for HTML, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript

Great Info…

Thank you, all!

regards,

We’ll make another plug for Zurb’s Foundation: http://foundation.zurb.com/ It’s .quick to pick-up, supports most browsers out-of-box and very importantly - it’s “responsive”. Very well done.

I’ve just had a lot of joy with 320 and up (http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/) - more a boilerplate than a framework,  based around responsive design principles.

leeaston - 15 October 2011 08:48 AM

This one looks very interesting: “An easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device.”

http://foundation.zurb.com/index.php

Just perfect.
I used it on both ExpressionEngine and Wordpress projects. Much better than Blueprint, from where i switch to.

I love the integration of Zurb playground stuff, modals, orbit, quick css buttons ... and you can produce clean&quick; markup.

Andrei

We used to stick mainly to 960.gs, but adaptive/responsive design and HTML5 aren’t included. We’re still looking for a good replacement, but the best so far is something like Golden Grid or Frameless Grid.

As I know the most popular language to support to you webpage regarding webdesign I know about the HTML and CSS.

Also, Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 is out and now has fluid layout support. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve heard good feedback.

So far working with Golden Grid System has gone well. It offers just the basics, so it’s less of a Framework than other systems, but I like not having to strip out stuff I don’t want/need. I’m using it with HTML5Boilerplate on my current project.

I’m a keen lover of the 960.gs, but am keen to try out more.

Paul @ Westhouse IT - 05 February 2012 05:03 PM

We used to stick mainly to 960.gs, but adaptive/responsive design and HTML5 aren’t included. We’re still looking for a good replacement, but the best so far is something like Golden Grid or Frameless Grid.

Have you tried LESS?
http://lesscss.org/

I came across this article late last year
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/23/the-semantic-grid-system-page-layout-for-tomorrow/

They mention this 960 variant that uses LESS http://semantic.gs/

So far it’s been pretty close to perfect for me!