October 12th, 2009–October 13th, 2009
May 4th, 2009–May 5th, 2009 in Seattle, WA
Again from Jeremy’s great live blogging of An Event Apart San Francisco, here’s Eric on CSS frameworks. I’m glad to see someone else broaching this topic, and in general it looks like Eric did a great job of rounding ‘em up. A few bits and responses:
If you’re going to use a framework, it should be yours; one that you’ve created. You can look at existing frameworks for ideas and hack at it. But the professionals in this room are not well served by picking up a framework and using it as-is.
Generally speaking, I agree. I have made great use of Blueprint — but it’s worth nothing that almost all of the basic concepts were created by me (along with Nathan and Christian). As Blueprint has progressed, it’s gotten farther and farther away from what we created, and I’ve been less enthralled by it. The point is: something you created yourself is always going to be more useful to you than something you didn’t.
Four of them use psuedo-namespaced class names beginning with grid- or container- or span- (which you would apply to a div!?).
I’m not sure if the parenthetical is Jeremy or Eric speaking, but this is also worth noting: in the original CSS framework Nathan, Christian, and I created, you were not necessarily supposed to apply those classes to a div. The classes were for any element, and there was no encouragement to liter your markup with extraneous div elements. The original Blueprint retained this philosophy, but later changed it, asking people to always use div elements as columns. I find this to be incredibly wrong, and I always override this Blueprint functionality when I use the framework. If you are going to use a div for every layout column/row/unit/whatever, you may as well just use tables. I hope everyone knows and understands that when I was touting Blueprint, it was before the made the boneheaded decision to require the use of a div element for every column. Visit site »
From Jeremy Keith’s live blog of Jeffrey Zeldman’s talk at An Event Apart San Francisco:
It’s hard being a web designer. The unmotivated need not apply. You have to constantly educate yourself. There are plenty of tutorials out there on using web design tools like Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, and so on. But teaching Excel is not the same as teaching business. Knowing how to use Photoshop and Illustrator doesn’t make you a web designer.
Yes. Yes. YES! Visit site »
Bronwyn, Stickel, and Trammel do N*SYNC’s Bye Bye Bye in Mark’s own personal karaoke studio. Awesome. Wish I could have been there, as I love karaoke. And, to quote a friend, I’m suspicious of anyone who doesn’t. Visit site »
Another great looking conference lineup from Happy Cog and company. If you’re looking for something in the Bay, definitely check it out. Sadly, I think my conference schedule is prety full for the rest of the year, so I don’t think I’ll be there. Visit site »