Likesalmon Design » CSS Frameworks http://www.likesalmondesign.com Open Source Web Design and Development from Scratch Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:51:47 +0000 en hourly 1 The plan http://www.likesalmondesign.com/the-plan/ http://www.likesalmondesign.com/the-plan/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:50:21 +0000 admin http://likesalmondesign.com/?p=5 I’ve developed 3 Wordpress sites at this point, and every time I’ve used the Kubrick theme as a basis for my custom theme.  Kubrick bugs me because it uses a lot of non-semantic id and class names, but the layout of the php is good and it has all the functionality I need built in, like widgets and comments.

This time though, I’m starting fresh.  I was inspired by this post:

http://michaelwender.com/2008/04/15/using-wordpress-sanbox-and-blueprint-css/

So I’m basing this site on the Sandbox theme, and I’m going to use Blueprint to get a jump on the CSS. It may be a while before I get to designing my own theme for this site because I have a couple projects in the pipe right now. Plus, I don’t know about you, but I am really digging the solid unstyled power of the Sandbox theme. I mean, its so pure, you know?

The last site I developed took a hair shy of 14 hours (!) to lay out in CSS. That is un-freaking-acceptable. I mean, I am really good at CSS. I know it backwards and forwards. By heart. But it is at its core a flawed and limited standard, so I’ve given up and I’m going to cheat anyway I can from now on. In a standards-compliant way, of course.

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