CSS Frameworks - Eric Meyer

Looked at all the frameworks and decided none of them are right for you. There's nothing wrong with templates but it's only a good start. A good framework should be yours to work best.

Reset styles - zero out as many browser defaults as you can get away with.

Print styles - consider only print styles on article pages and not on homepage

Framework, body sizes - using pixel sizes won't resize in at least 1 browser.

Framework, heading sizes - HTML 4 has default values for heading sizes under 1em.

Framework, naming conventions - after analyzing different CSS frameworks, noticed that naming conventions for blocks of content were named span1, span2, span3, etc. - that were applied to the div [ha ha ha ha ha]!

Layout invocation - one file [CSS] that described all possible layouts vs. pointing to one of several style sheets

Style inclusion patterns - point to a single style sheet that imports several other style sheets vs. pointing to only what's needed for a particular page; problem with using one style sheet that imports several other style sheets is that IE doesn't cache following style sheets

styling external links - see going to print on ALA

debugging styles - shows a grid in background to find inconsistencies

draft files - blank styles to get started, may be helpful for naming conventions and passing it on to CSS editors

sketch files - PDF of browser window to scribble on