How do you choose a CSS framework? [closed]

Answer 1

Forget about frameworks, use XCSS. You will love to write stylesheets again.

Answer 2

I still need to diversify my experience with CSS frameworks but the one I've worked with the most is the YUI CSS library.

It's a four part setup - consisting of a reset, grids package, fonts setup (not entirely sure what the pros of using that are) and a base stylesheet which applies some basic formatting. You can choose which parts you want to use and they're available to use from a CDN on Yahoo! and Google.

I like the YUI library because it provides an easily switchable layout (just by changing one class or id of the container wrapper) - for example yui-t4 provides a 180px column on the right, yui-t3 provides a 300px column on the left - these templates also take ad-block sizes as well which is useful.

The base markup isn't too bad either:

<div id="doc"><!—-overall document wrapper-->
    <div id="hd"><!--header / masthead--></div>
    <div id="bd">
        <div id="yui-main">
            <div class="yui-b"><!--primary block--></div>
        </div>
        <div class="yui-b"><!--secondary block--></div>
    </div>
    <div id="ft"><!--footer--></div>
</div>