During the drupal.org redesign process, I noticed that Mark Boulton was using blueprint. I decided to give it a spin, and used it on a drupal site for a surgeon who specializes in sports medicine. (heavy use of imagecache, nodequeue, views, books, and nicemenus). Since that project, my stance on blueprint is this:you'll take my CSS framework from cold dead hands.
Yes, and its very well made. Offers nothing except a basic grid layout that supports1,2,3 columns, a strong typographical foundation, and the conversions of various drupal elements to the blueprint styles. My "starter theme" of choice. In my humble opinion, the revolutionary advances in drupal 6 make big, bulky starter themes unnecessary.
You don't need to know a whole lot to use blueprint. Everything you absolutely need to know is in the below code example. (with notes below)
<div class="container clearfix">
<div class="span-6 append-2">
</div>
<div class="span-8">
</div>
<div class="span-6 prepend-2 last">
</div>
<br id="you-dont-need-a-br-since-clearfix-does-the-same-thing" />
</div>
And that's really all there is too it. Of course, there are many more features, that let you get perfectly centered borders that don't cause the elements to overflow, some nice typography classes, and other useful stuff that nearly any website needs. I found the best way to learn the framework was to just look at what's going on on the example pages, with firebug. Its all quite self-explanatory.
Comments
nice article
That was really a nice article about theming with blueprint in drupal. I think I am going to try that out soon for one of my projects.
How is 960.gs ?
I agree with your nick blueprint is an amazing grid css. There is another css 960.gs
I am basically torn between picking one for my development. Both has their advantages and disadvantages.
Whats your take
We are using blueprint
We are using blueprint too.
Always looking forward to your unique and helpful posts.
kimberly ventura
Nobody *needs* a liquid
Nobody *needs* a liquid layout.
... as long as you don't need
... as long as you don't need liquid layout (liquid blueprint doesn't count, since it doesn't work for 50+% visitors with IE6). Unfortunately :(.
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