Blueprint and CSS
A few days ago, I noticed a bit of buzz about a new CSS framework called Blueprint. The main idea behind the framework is to make it easy to construct purely CSS grid layouts, and also to set up good-looking typography, and to make the whole thing as similar as possible in all browsers. Even Internet Explorer. That’s no small task.
I’m certainly not a CSS expert, but while I’m not too shabby at making things with pretty colours and attractive padding, I usually seem to come unstuck when it comes to positioning blocks of text on the page. Getting neat columns of text has always seemed a bit of a trial by ordeal to me, and line spacing has always been a matter of complete guesswork.
I’ve been putting off producing a few pages for a web site for work1 for ages, so I decided that this would be a good opportunity to try Blueprint out. The site is very simple (just a few pages, mainly text with a few images), but I wanted it to look professional, clean, minimalist, but also attractive.
