CSS frameworks: where have you been all my life
Not terribly coherent about this yet BUT am posting anyway -- mostly in the form of a bunch of links (for non-geek designers: sorry, there may be nothing for you here -- if you love grids and want to know more, please read on).
Have been using CSS since the late 90's, but for whatever reason only just discovered the existence of CSS Frameworks -- by following links on the Posterous site Mockups To Go (thank you!) about the grids used by the Blueprint CSS framework.
Sites built with the Blueprint CSS framework include Quantcast and BlueFlavor. A related nugget is the 960 grid system.
Another CSS framework is the Yahoo developer YUI (vaguely remember being told to check this out a few years ago, but just wasn't ready). There's a Yahoo webcast with an introductory explanation of the framework along with a pretty good introduction to CSS.
Some drawbacks to Blueprint (like pixel vs. percent for font sizing) are discussed in the post Blueprint CSS Framework vs YUI Grids.
CSS frameworks for designers gives a very general explanation of frameworks. Another -- and more specific overview on frameworks includes some additonal pros and cons.
OK, will really let go and ramble: a CSS reset is used to set the baseline for a framework -- recommend the Eric Meyer reset and this post: Yahoo and Blueprint resets compared and the fabulous post CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch. Actually, you can probably skip all the above and just go to this post.
