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Posted 22 December 2011 - 06:49 PM

I'll get straight to the point :)

Who uses them and what do you recommend?

Have lately been looking at less and bootstrap and have used bootstrap in a few personal projects.

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Posted 26 December 2011 - 06:21 AM

View Postrallport, on 22 December 2011 - 06:49 PM, said:

I'll get straight to the point :)

Who uses them and what do you recommend?

Have lately been looking at less and bootstrap and have used bootstrap in a few personal projects.

I was looking at bootstrap some time back. It just looked a lil overkill for me.
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Posted 26 December 2011 - 05:44 PM

View PostSamus, on 26 December 2011 - 06:21 AM, said:

I was looking at bootstrap some time back. It just looked a lil overkill for me.


Why would you say it's overkill?

For me, a framework will speed up development tons - can get the designers to work to a set grid, use the same classes for every site etc....
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Posted 26 December 2011 - 08:52 PM

View Postrallport, on 26 December 2011 - 05:44 PM, said:

Why would you say it's overkill?

For me, a framework will speed up development tons - can get the designers to work to a set grid, use the same classes for every site etc....

Maybe I wasn't entirely sure how to use it. But from the way I saw it, producing my own layout just seemed faster.
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 03:58 PM

View PostSamus, on 26 December 2011 - 08:52 PM, said:

Maybe I wasn't entirely sure how to use it. But from the way I saw it, producing my own layout just seemed faster.


Well I'm thinking for sue at work too. As I can give web designers a base psd with column overlays, that corresponds to the less framework.

So wehn I get a design to code into HTML5 all the widths are the same as a the framework. I could also code a proper base template for all projects, finally :)

Gues sit depends how you use it :)
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 12:09 AM

i have heard blueprint css framework is good and very easy to use
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 03:41 PM

Slightly related, I recently came across a theory coined OOCSS. It annoyed me a little so I decided to have a rant about it on my blog :) http://www.web-desig...ated-css-oocss/

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