CSS Frameworks

Nearly everyone close to the tech industry has now heard of programming frameworks — thanks to the Rails part of Ruby on Rails . Every scripting language - PHP, Python, etc. - now has a framework; or fifty. This is a good, logical growing-up of the web. These languages needed the more structured Model-View-Controller (MVC) environment that their established compiled programming language brethren have had forever.

While I have extensively studied programming frameworks, especially around Ruby & PHP, I have somehow completely missed another set of frameworks being developed: CSS Frameworks. I hadn’t even heard of CSS frameworks until I stumbled across the following talk on An Event Apart ’s presentation schedule :

“The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer “

How did I miss this? No idea… But I have started playing catch-up by checking out the following:

Jeff Croft’s Frameworks for Designers on A List Apart

Mike Stenhouse’s posts on Modular CSS and A CSS Framework

Blueprint CSS Framework on Google Code

If you are an interface wiz who has been keeping up with the CSS framework developments, please post additional links worth checking out in the comments. Thanks!