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Play along at home. vufind/demo/css/layout.css

Understand the benefits of using CSS frameworks for better codebase, layouts, browser compliance, and time efficiency in web development projects.

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Play along at home. vufind/demo/css/layout.css

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  1. Using a CSS FrameworkorHow to spend less time making CSS layouts and more time at the Tugboat BrewpubChris Barr, Villanova University

  2. Play along at home.http://vufind.org/demo/css/layout.css

  3. Framework “a set of tools, libraries, conventions, and best practices that attempt to abstract routine tasks into generic modules that can be reused.”

  4. Why we use a CSS Framework? • Normalize code base • Well documented • Browser compliance (with some hacks baked in) • Easily create multiple layouts • We’ve got better things to do than finding novel ways of creating columns

  5. Yahoo User Interface Library

  6. Microsoft? User Interface Library

  7. What we like about YUI • 4 standard size layouts out of the box • Ems based (nice zoom layouts) • Source order independence • A-grade browser compliance • BSD License

  8. The YUI CSS Files • Reset.css • Fonts.css • Grids.css • And a helper… base.css

  9. Let’s play!

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