[OpenLayers-Users] (slightly) OT: css frameworks

[Eric Lemoine]

Thanks for sharing this Paul. This is good to know.

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Eric

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  this is somewhat off topic, but since we are usually in the business
>  of putting maps into web pages, I usually find I have to put together
>  some kind of web page around the map and that's where I start running
>  into trouble.  While limiting myself to plain HTML tags and avoiding
>  any kind of colour/style decisions is usually a wise idea, sometimes
>  its nice to put some effort into the web page beyond the absolute
>  minimum ...
>
>  For those of us that are, um, designed-challenged, using a CSS
>  framework is a great place to start.  I've recently found a couple of
>  them that might be of interest:
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/
>
>  "Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS
>  development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your
>  project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and
>  even a stylesheet for printing."
>
>  http://960.gs/
>
>  "The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development
>  workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of
>  960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be
>  used separately or in tandem."
>
>  Both frameworks provide a fixed column grid based on a fixed width of
>  960 pixels, and blueprint adds some decent choices for colors, styles
>  etc.  The fixed width thing is often not what we want for mapping
>  sites built with OpenLayers (we want the map to fill the page and
>  these frameworks won't do that) but occasionally you need a different
>  approach.
>
>  I put together a simple (non-mapping) page using blueprint after about
>  5 mins of reading the tutorial and was pretty happy with the result.
>  I haven't tried 960.gs yet but it seems similar in concept and
>  probably more appropriate if you just want the layout part.
>
>  I haven't specifically researched other CSS frameworks so there's
>  probably something better out there if you care to look.
>
>  Cheers
>
>  Paul
>  __________________________________________
>
>     Paul Spencer
>     Chief Technology Officer
>     DM Solutions Group Inc
>     http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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