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CSS & Layout: 960.gs or Blueprint for client work?

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    • CommentAuthoraaronw
    • CommentTime3 days ago
     
    Starting a mid-size site (about 25 templates). Thinking about a grid framework this time instead of hand-rolling the layout. 960.gs or Blueprint 0.7? Or YUI Grids?

    Main concern is handing it over to the client's in-house guy later.
    • CommentAuthorgridlock
    • CommentTime3 days ago
     
    960.gs. It's smaller, it doesn't touch your typography, and the 12 and 16 column versions cover most designs. Blueprint resets and styles a lot of things, which you then fight with.
    • CommentAuthortomasz
    • CommentTime2 days ago
     
    I like Blueprint for prototypes because the typography is already decent. For production I end up removing half of it.
    • CommentAuthorhannah_j
    • CommentTime2 days ago
     
    YUI Grids is good if you need the fluid templates. It's also the only one with a real company behind it and documentation.
    • CommentAuthorvalidator
    • CommentTime2 days ago
     
    The thing nobody mentions: class="grid_4 alpha" all over the markup is presentational. Fine for a site you maintain. For the client's in-house guy it's a convention he has to learn.
    • CommentAuthoraaronw
    • CommentTime2 days ago
     
    That's a fair point, but he's going to have to learn something either way. Our hand-rolled layouts aren't documented at all.
    • CommentAuthorgridlock
    • CommentTime2 days ago
     
    The 960 PSD and Fireworks templates also help. Give the designer the template, then the grid in the PSD matches the CSS. That alone saved us a day of back and forth on the last project.
    • CommentAuthoraaronw
    • CommentTime1 day ago
     
    Went with 960.gs, 12 columns. Will report back.

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