DISQUS

John Munsch · 1 year ago

I'd like to strongly suggest an alternative to the Layout Gala (LG) choice. Yahoo! offers a CSS file as part of their Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) package that makes it easy to build grid based layouts with multiple boxes in multiple sections.

The YUI website is http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ but the specific page for the grid stuff is http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/ and they offer a very simple to use tool on that page where you can layout your page interactively and then it will give you the HTML to use for that layout.

The resulting HTML is a set of nested div tags that is very easy to work with and the CSS file you include for the grid system is a mere 4K. They also offer some other excellent CSS files to strip away formatting differences and standardize font sizes between browsers. Yahoo! also will host the CSS for you if you're looking to cut down on bandwidth usage.

All their stuff is well documented and YUI as a whole has hundreds of examples. Plus, Yahoo! tests all their stuff on every major browser on every major platform.

Luke · 1 year ago

Hey John,

Thanks for pointing out YUI - it looks like a pretty cool addition to this list, and a great tool for developers who are interested in building their own template.

Sunchaser · 1 year ago

I take templates from here http://www.oswd.org/

Luke · 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing out OSWD, Sunchaser - it looks like I've missed a few good resources for templates.