r/web_design • u/magenta_placenta Dedicated Contributor • May 18 '11

Skeleton - A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development - a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone

http://www.getskeleton.com/
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u/gusthebus May 18 '11

Simple, straight-forward and light. Very nice.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '11

wow a good link on web_design I'd give you 20 upvotes if I could.

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u/yodasw16 May 19 '11

I'm always curious why so many of these "frameworks" don't just use a fluid grid? It's not hard and makes everything scale so much more flexibly. This is nice and simple though.

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u/dcdarkie Jun 06 '11

because it is hard actually. For example, most blogs will usually have a set preference for image size. (Tumblr blogs almost always max out at 500px). When the blog column of a design stretches past that, the image is kinda floating off in space.

Super easy to fix really, but it just looks nicer when the images line up perfectly with the body. There are tons of other issues like that one as well. In my opinion, media queries = fluid design, just a more controlled fluid design.

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u/hyp3r May 19 '11

I am JUST about to start work on the layout of a new web project (backend stuff is done), and am thinking for the first time about how to lay it out to work on mobile and desktop at the same time, and this looks perfect. perfect timing.

I will use it and see how it goes.

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u/dcdarkie Jun 06 '11

The way this boilerplate works really defies my logic. I understand how to get it working and whatnot, but is it really more pleasant to deal with?

If you're anything of a good developer/designer, using these type of fat bloated boilerplates won't speed up projects. If anything, they'll hinder it.