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Hi Doug,

I’ve yet to incorporate the build scripts in an EE workflow. I plan to do so on an upcoming project though, so I’ll report back any findings.

Our creative director is a fan of the square grid, which I’ve been using in conjunction with the HTML5 Boilerplate and a custom CSS reset / generic typography sheet.

This is very interesting as well.

http://cssgrid.net/

I am now using a modified version of twitters bootstrap:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

what i like, is it is more than just a complete reset and grid system. Plus it sits on less js which i have been using exclusively now for months. (cant beat a color variable, especially for clients who change their minds)

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

...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?

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.