iain duncan wrote: > I think I will spend some time evaluating the state of the various css > frameworks for the quickstart templates. Thought I'd check first to see > > a) what people think are important criteria > b) what people think are contenders or should be eliminated > > It seems to me it makes the most sense to use a set of id and class tags > that are already being used by a good framework in order to add a level > of pluggability. Thoughts?
I'm curious what you'll come up with, as the idea of a good CSS framework is very compelling to me, in or out of TurboGears. For me the interest is more applying a common look-and-feel across systems, which requires some sanity in CSS, and all stylesheets will have some degree of insanity when they are developed organically from scratch. I'd like something that uses more semantically-oriented class names instead of some of the garbage names I've seen before. I think the reason for the garbage names is that there's lots of optional ways to lay out the page, and you use different ids or class names depending on the layout. It seems much preferable to have some kind of builder that creates a basic stylesheet based on layout preferences, and all layouts use the same ids or class names (though of course some will have more than others, e.g., 3-column will have classes a 2-column layout does not). A good template for a stylesheet would also have a template for a style guide. For any substantial site I've worked on with multiple people (including designers and programmers) some kind of style guide is really helpful. Generally a page that lists all the styles, i.e., all the recommended tags, any special classes, and advice on where to use them. I only looked into framework briefly many months ago, and wasn't particularly happy with any I saw, so I'm afraid I have no advice on that. -- Ian Bicking : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://blog.ianbicking.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
