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I highly recommend skeleton.css (getskeleton.com) as a minimal theme for bootstrapping any website. Almost no learning curve, and it looks good, even if you don

by kmfrk 11y ago

I highly recommend skeleton.css (getskeleton.com) as a minimal theme for bootstrapping any website. Almost no learning curve, and it looks good, even if you don't use the HTML it prefers. That said, I have customized it a bit, but it's fine right out of the game, especially the typography.

hardwaresofton 11y ago
Also in the same vein -- http://purecss.io/ http://purecss.io/ Main difference I find is a little more styling/ramp up and quotient-based gridding (you can attach semantically named classes for 1/3rd of the space or 2/5ths)
- lewisl9029 11y ago
  Thanks for sharing. I've come across Skeleton before but not Pure. Pure looks amazing. I especially love the fact that it's modular. The base is only 1.1 KB, and if you don't need anything other than buttons and grids, you can get by with less than 3 KB of CSS!
  - hardwaresofton 11y ago
    Yeah, it's definitely conceptually similar to Skeleton (I think Skeleton is lighter though), but I remember seeing Pure first and feeling like it was such a breath of fresh air compared to the weight of bootstrap
- budparr 11y ago
  purecss is no longer in development. I've used it and it was a good start, but I've since shifted to using bourbon/neat, which is more a library than a framework and has a light footprint. https://github.com/yahoo/pure/issues/414#issuecomment-132315132 https://github.com/yahoo/pure/issues/414#issuecomment-132315...
  - hardwaresofton 11y ago
    A quote from that link: "Pure is still alive, but don't expect a lot of changes. It's stable and useful. It will never grow into a full-blown component library with tons of features. It likely will remain close to its current form for some time to come, with only minor bug fixes. Right now, there are some bugs we want to fix, but they are small bugs with the Pure website, not with Pure itself. We'll probably have to revise the roadmap or the expectations for the year. The YUI theme generator is gone now that YUI is gone. The guy who supported that piece left Yahoo about a year ago. " My thoughts exactly, as far as I'm concerned, pure is basically done. I feel like bourbon/neat already fails the simplicity test, since it's two parts for some reason. [EDIT] - yeah I just took a look at bourbon/neat, and I see now, it's for people who prefer SASS? outside of that I see what you mean (by comment)
    - budparr 11y ago
      Not as simple as Pure, that's for sure. It's separate because if you don't need the grid (neat) then you just don't include it.
- tombrossman 11y ago
  I've got basic Skeleton and Pure CSS sites for Jekyll available on GitLab below, since these are my two favorite starting points. My minor changes in adapting them to Jekyll are released to the public domain. https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Skeleton_CSS_Boilerplate https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Skeleton_CSS_Boilerpla... https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Pure_CSS https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Pure_CSS
sgallant 11y ago
I've used skeleton A LOT for a quick and dirty responsive css framework. But unfortunately, the latest version doesn't support nested columns. A big disadvantage, IMO.

by kmfrk 11y ago

hardwaresofton 11y ago

Also in the same vein -- http://purecss.io/ http://purecss.io/ Main difference I find is a little more styling/ramp up and quotient-based gridding (you can attach semantically named classes for 1/3rd of the space or 2/5ths)

lewisl9029 11y ago
Thanks for sharing. I've come across Skeleton before but not Pure. Pure looks amazing. I especially love the fact that it's modular. The base is only 1.1 KB, and if you don't need anything other than buttons and grids, you can get by with less than 3 KB of CSS!
- hardwaresofton 11y ago
  Yeah, it's definitely conceptually similar to Skeleton (I think Skeleton is lighter though), but I remember seeing Pure first and feeling like it was such a breath of fresh air compared to the weight of bootstrap
budparr 11y ago
purecss is no longer in development. I've used it and it was a good start, but I've since shifted to using bourbon/neat, which is more a library than a framework and has a light footprint. https://github.com/yahoo/pure/issues/414#issuecomment-132315132 https://github.com/yahoo/pure/issues/414#issuecomment-132315...
- hardwaresofton 11y ago
  A quote from that link: "Pure is still alive, but don't expect a lot of changes. It's stable and useful. It will never grow into a full-blown component library with tons of features. It likely will remain close to its current form for some time to come, with only minor bug fixes. Right now, there are some bugs we want to fix, but they are small bugs with the Pure website, not with Pure itself. We'll probably have to revise the roadmap or the expectations for the year. The YUI theme generator is gone now that YUI is gone. The guy who supported that piece left Yahoo about a year ago. " My thoughts exactly, as far as I'm concerned, pure is basically done. I feel like bourbon/neat already fails the simplicity test, since it's two parts for some reason. [EDIT] - yeah I just took a look at bourbon/neat, and I see now, it's for people who prefer SASS? outside of that I see what you mean (by comment)
  - budparr 11y ago
    Not as simple as Pure, that's for sure. It's separate because if you don't need the grid (neat) then you just don't include it.
tombrossman 11y ago
I've got basic Skeleton and Pure CSS sites for Jekyll available on GitLab below, since these are my two favorite starting points. My minor changes in adapting them to Jekyll are released to the public domain. https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Skeleton_CSS_Boilerplate https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Skeleton_CSS_Boilerpla... https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Pure_CSS https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Pure_CSS

sgallant 11y ago

I've used skeleton A LOT for a quick and dirty responsive css framework. But unfortunately, the latest version doesn't support nested columns. A big disadvantage, IMO.