Kevin Yank — CSS frameworks

Web Direc­tions South 2009, Syd­ney Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, Octo­ber 9 1.40pm.

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With the pro­lif­er­a­tion and wide­spread adop­tion of JavaScript frame­works, smart devel­op­ers have won­dered if a sim­i­lar approach to smooth­ing over the rough spots of CSS might work. Thus, CSS frame­works like Blue­print, YUI Library CSS Tools, Boil­er­plate, and many oth­ers were born. In this ses­sion, we will sur­vey the land­scape of CSS frame­works and con­sider how each of them deals with the unique chal­lenge of cre­at­ing gen­er­alised, reusable CSS styles.

There are a num­ber of dif­fer­ent approaches, and some are bet­ter than oth­ers. Choose the right frame­work and you’ll save your­self a lot of work. Choose the wrong one, and you’ll find your projects weighed down by restric­tive assump­tions and masses of code that you don’t under­stand. When it comes to CSS frame­works, mak­ing the right choice is every­thing. By the end of this ses­sion, you might just decide that the right frame­work for you is no frame­work at all.

About Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank PortraitAs span class="org">SitePoint’s Technical Director, Kevin Yank keeps abreast of all that is new and exciting in web technology. Best known for his first book, Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL, Kevin also co-wrote Simply JavaScript in 2007 and Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong in 2008. He also writes the SitePoint Tech Times, a free weekly email newsletter that goes out to nearly 200,000 subscribers worldwide, and hosts the SitePoint Podcast. When he isn’t speaking at a conference or writing his next book, Kevin lives in Melbourne, and performs improvised comedy theatre with Impro Melbourne.

Follow Kevin on Twitter: @sentience

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