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Making Your Own CSS Framework
- 1. Making your own CSS Framework
- 3. It’s easier for.. Designers Coders Quick deployment Future upgradability Accessibility Your users Managing far more sites
- 4. Who am I? I don’t do much coding anymore… I don’t need to.
- 5. Under Pressure In one of the largest colleges at the U of M Managing around 200 web sites Size of web team going from 5, down to 2 Uncertain of future capacity
- 6. What were our priorities? Flexible Horizontal and vertical navs Individuality: Different colors and pictures Accessible Use H tags correctly, and consistently Jump to content and nav is consistent Interchangeable Can pull one piece out of a site, and drop it into another… easily
- 7. Weighing our needs Where is the balance between flexibility, and time constraint? Is there anything you are sure will be on every page? What do you suspect will be on every page?
- 8. What’s the same on every page? Logos Banners Page width Search Footer Nav (kind of) content
- 21. Wow, what an ugly site!
- 27. Building in the frame Building those main boxes you use all the time Header Footer nav
- 28. 1 st Step -CSS Reset- h1, p, div, ul, li { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; }
- 29. The Container div#container { width: 960px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: left; }
- 30. Department Header div#header { width: 960px; }
- 31. U of M Header div#UMNheader { width: 960px; }
- 32. Navigation and Content div#nav { width: 210px; float: left; } div#content { width: 750px; float: left; }
- 33. Footer div#footer { width: 960px; }
- 34. Margins
- 35. Building the flexible parts Columns div.half { width: 360px; float: left; } div.third { width: 240px; float: left; } Content Styling div#content p { margin:10px 25px; padding:0; } div#content ul { margin:10px 25px 10px 25px; padding:0; list-style-type:disc; }
- 37. Wow… that’s really ugly.
- 40. The base of your framework: CSS Reset Structural elements (the box model) To future proof, make them match HTML5 Major accessibility pieces Tex styles Image Styles Columns for layout (furthering the box model) A basic print style sheet
- 41. Keep out of the framework Colors Images Header images Background images Stylization of the nav
- 43. Make some widgets (don’t sweat the small stuff)
- 47. Design freedom
- 51. How to do it wrong … or “My first version”
- 52. Version 1 Too Constricting, No Individuality
- 53. Version 1 Too Constricting, No Individuality
- 54. Version 1 Too Constricting, No Individuality
- 55. To reiterate, it’s easier for.. Designers Coders Quick deployment Future upgradability Accessibility Your users Managing far more sites
- 56. Once you’ve got the basics… add some flare…
- 57. Interchangeable flare Emphasis Boxes Pop up video boxes Slide shows Like office space “Flare”
- 59. Contact me… Twitter: @dansag Email: dansag@umn.edu Resources… The CSS Framework http://intranet.cehd.umn.edu/demos/dan/MWC2011/core2011.css Example page http://intranet.cehd.umn.edu/demos/dan/MWC2011/default.html CSS Reset http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Editor's Notes
- #3: You separate out all the deeper understanding of CSS from the design. Even if you your self are doing the design, you don’t have to Make a new design every time Figure out how to modify an existing design Get stuck with a new design You can effectively start form scratch, with a big head start
- #5: I’m an Information Architect and Project Manager I don’t code as much anymore, because I don’t really need to.. The designer does the designs… and puts in codes for colors and making it look pretty the designer doesn't need to have in depth coding ability… that got done years ago
- #8: A really cool design, vs having the time to take care of everyone Example: like a header, footer, search, or nav Example: breadcrumbs, columned text, videos, expanding nav
- #28: Hey look, they’re the same as HTML5 !
- #37: This is about what you’re left with… it’s the CSS box model….
- #38: So that’s ugly right? But from there you build it into beautiful sites by putting design and individuality on top of the boxes.
- #39: Like this exmaple…
- #40: That template with just the colors is a little too blank for some, so you can expand on it as well… This is a more detailed template, you can still modify it just as much, you’ll just have to do a lot of deleting and changing first, to turn it into your own design.
- #41: Make it match html 5, or better yet, just do it in HTML5… this version has css reset for html 5 Keeping H tags in order, as well as consistent “jump to” Text styles: do them right here, don’t worry about them later Image styles, if you’re going to use em, have a good basis to start…. Most of the time you won’t need to chage them later, but if you do, you’ll have a good start to it
- #42: Here is the list of what should be in the core One I didn’t mention before is image styles Print style sheet is good so you can knock out the navigation… if you want to do that, and make the content areas wider But that leads to what to leave out… the design
- #58: The flare Emph boxes http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ssw/Current/financial-aid/default.asp Pop up video box http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/ Slide show http://www.cehd.umn.edu/alumni/events/default.html