On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:28 AM, wavydavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 23, 4:30 am, "Mark Ramm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro > > Which got me thinking about reusable CSS. And then last week I talked > > to some folks at PyCon a bit about our attempt to try to have more > > reusable default CSS in the TG2 quickstarted project. So a little > > bit of research lead me to two major players in the "CSS Framework" > > world. > > > > > http://www.yaml.de/en/http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/wiki/Tutorial > > > > There are some others -- in particular Yahoo seems to have something > > interesting. > > FWIW, I am not a big fan of Yahoo's CSS framework. The reset and fonts > sheets > are OK, but their layout framework is horrible to use, IMO. > > Regards style reset and typographical correctness (not layout), I'm a > fan of Tripoli[1], > which resets everything, and rebuilds using rules from "The Elements > of Style". > > > I'm not 100% sold on the existing frameworks, but I definitely would > > like to make getting a basic site with a reasonable layout working > > quickly a goal in TG2 and it seems like a CSS framework might be an > > important part of that goal. So I'd like to promote some discussion > > of the ideas, and see if people have actually used any of these > > frameworks and have any opinions that are informed by actual > > experience (unlike mine...) > > I think that the current single centered column with header/footer is > probably > the best way. In my experience, every site needs some level of > customised > layout so it would be difficult to get a generic layout correct. > > It might be worth splitting into two sheets, one for a basic layout, > and one for > the default tg content. That way you could just remove the link to the > TG specific > stuff, while retaining the default layout. > > [1] http://www.monc.se/tripoli/ > > > -- > Simon >
As far as bluprint goes, it's much more useful if you are also using the grid generator tool here: http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/ which allows you to recreate your grids.css file according to your own specs. Maybe something like this could go in the Toolbox? Kevin Horn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
