Hi,

 

Have any of you heard about or even tried Google's New CSS Framework, Blueprint?

 

It's meant to make life easier for people creating CSS based designs and stylesheets. It gives a CSS foundation to build your project on top

 

Here is the link (Current version 0.4): http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/

 

Is this something you would actually use? I'v never really used anything like this before, but will certainly try it if it takes some of the pain away from creating CSS layouts.

I had a look at this a few weeks ago but personally won't be using it. It's definitely worth taking a look at for people who are either looking to get into CSS or have only just started out with it but for anyone experienced it's unlikely to be of much use.

 

I'm sure most designers already have their own framework which they put to use on projects so for me, this solution is a little bit limited and contains lots of bits of CSS that I won't use.

 

It's a good idea and is essentially a collaboration of ideas from some of the big names in the industry so it could certainly be helpful but I think most people with a decent knowledge of CSS will agree that it'll be more use to beginners/intermediate CSS designers.

I doubt I'll be using it. But it's a very interesting idea and tool. And it is a good source of tips.

 

What I especially liked was how it created the grid so text lines on multiple colums would align up with each other. It seem very much aimed towards typographers and giving them more familiar tools which CSS sometimes lack.

 

I'll be having a look at the source to see if I can pick up a few useful features.

Looking at it, it does have some drawbacks. As you define layout features using class names. Your layout is no longer separated from the HTML. If you want to change the number of colums on your site using this framework, you'll have to edit the class names in your HTML files. All of them. Kindof defines the usefulness of CSS.

I'm not a fan of it - I don't think it's a useful tool as CSS isn't like other scripting languages.

 

CSS is basically a list of 'settings' rather than program that runs from A to B and has to "do" stuff.

 

Jeez, what a good description - "do" stuff.... My English really isn't here today

I don't plan on using this, although I do have my own "base" CSS file that I always start with. It's pretty much a "reset" stylesheet, setting margins and padding to 0, setting a default font size, etc.

You do know it isn't Google's right?

it's developed by this guy... http://bjorkoy.com/

its just added to google's web projects directory

Hm.. interesting. The guy is from Trondheim. At least he studies there. Near where I live.

well I'll give it a try, dosen't look promising.... "/ but hay whats wrong with trying! lol

I used it and write a short guide about it on my website. It was easy to use but all of the drawbacks stated above mean I would much rather start from scratch (gives me more flexibility and control that way)

I used it and write a short guide about it on my website. It was easy to use but all of the drawbacks stated above mean I would much rather start from scratch (gives me more flexibility and control that way)

 

I actually used the tutorial on your site to get up and running with this. It is SO tempting to use something like Blueprint for me, as a beginner in CSS who has spent more time messing around with layouts to get them to work cross browser, etc, but i understand what everyone is saying about its non-semantic class names. Maybe I just need to devote more time to learning things the hard way rather than take the easy way out and use something like this? Any more thoughts on this would be appreciated.

i think those CSS frameworks are great for those who just begin to learn CSS like myself

Hi,

 

Have any of you heard about or even tried Google's New CSS Framework, Blueprint?

 

Here is the link (Current version 0.4): http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/

 

I guess they're at version 0.6 now. I looked at it back at version 0.3 and it looked interesting. Although I didn't use it yet, I think I'll take a look at the newer version to see what improvements they have made w/ this.