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I suppose the question then is what should your hourly rate be? This is something I've always struggled with; it has varied from £11 an hour to £22.50.

I was wondering what you guys think about CSS frameworks. I've always preferred to create my stylesheets from scratch, or build my own framework which I can adapt for different projects, so using somebody else's framework has never really appealed to me. I feel like you lose a degree of control when you are locked into a pre-existing grid, plus the whole naming structure of <div class="6col"> is somewhat off-putting. I can see how this can cause some massive headaches when it comes to customising or debugging. I do understand the benefits of them; less coding required, quicker output, responsive, more likely to be standards compliant and cross browser compatible, etc. I just don't see why I can't create something similar by myself. Does anybody here use frameworks for CSS? If so, what do you use and why?

Thanks guys Looks like a pretty active community you have here.

Hello all, just signed up with this forum. I started learning web design at the age of 13, where I created some wonderfully trashy Geocities webpages, complete with Comic Sans MS and animated backgrounds. I'd like to think that my skills have refined somewhat throughout the years, but hey, maybe I'm just biased. I studied interactive development at uni, and then I worked in an agency for a year or so before a colleague and I decided to go it alone and start up our own business. A few months in and I figured it was time to meet some fellow designers and developers, so here I am!