What is CSS Framework?
CSS Frameworks are unique prototypes of CSS codes that decrease your frustration of creating/recreating and retesting basic layouts on regular basis. Not only it makes CSS coding interesting, but also provides a simple way of skipping the tedious startup of CSS coding.
Layouts
To begin with, you should know the different type of layouts. Following are a list of common layouts for CSS:
- Vertical navigation with one content column
- Vertical navigation with two columns of content
- Horizontal navigation with one content column
- Horizontal navigation with two content columns
- Horizontal navigation with local navigation and one set column of content
- Horizontal navigation with local navigation and 2 sets columns of content
With these six unique layouts, you can cover design of most of the blogs and corporate sites.
Common elements in CSS Frameworks
Following are the most common building blocks in the above six layouts:
- Main content
- Main navigation
- Sub Content
- Local Navigation
- Header
- Footer
The most important single aspect of accessibility is source code order. You just don’t have enough time to spend on accessibility of mailing lists or forums without someone advising you on how to structure HTML so that the content can precede the navigation. This will stop the screen reader user from having to wait throughout the navigation process of the site, every time they travel to a new page.
Following is an ideal way to structure your website:
- Header
- Main Content
- Sub Content
- Local navigation
- Main navigation
- Footer
CSS Frameworks help in creating of flexible source documents that can take a variety of content and load of CSS techniques to impart different manipulation techniques to different websites.
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Categories: CSS Frameworks, Posted on January 14, 2008 by Choppr | Log in
