A CSS Framework is an effort to create a framework for XHTML pages such that it conforms to being styled into layouts commonly found on the web.
If you page conforms to the framework (a misuse in terms, imho), then it will be easy to apply many different style sheets. In other words, write your XHTML in a certain way, and you get the flexibility to use many different layouts.
There’s even a CSS Framework Stylesheet Design Contest going on.
Pretty as a Picture offers very nice XHTML and CSS templates.
> Pretty as a Picture is a web site born from the love of web/graphic design. Here you will find tutorials on how to create the visual and constructual elements of web pages that we really want, as well as free CSS & XHTML templates to download and use for your web site.
Jeff Howden has created a CSS-Only, Table-less Forms CSS solution.
> Most of the CSS-only, table-less forms available suck. So, not wanting to stoop to mediocrity, I decided to take on the task of coming up with something better. This is the result of my efforts. It works in Win/IE6, Firefox v1.0 , Win/Opera v8.0, has minor layout differences in Mac/Safari v1.0.3 and Mac/Safari v1.2, and is usable but fairly buggered in Mac/IE5.2.
The Man in Blue brings the love to Accessible, stylish form layout. He shows six different ways to layout the same form, all with CSS and minimal tricks.
> Yes, HTML forms are the worst things known to web designers. Yes, HTML forms have to be accessible and usable. No, HTML forms do not have to be an eyesore.
The W3C has been busy with lots of activity on the CSS front.
> 2005-12-16: The CSS Working Group has released a First Public Working Draft of the CSS3 Advanced Layout Module defining grid layout. The draft’s features could be used to define visual order independent of document order, position and alignment of user interface “widgets,” and page and window grids. Also published are Working Drafts of Multi-Column Layout and Cascading and Inheritance. Visit the CSS home page.
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