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Permalink Reply by Oğuz Demirkapı on 25 January 2008 at 10:47pm

Mainly I prefer DW CS3 templates. But CSS Creator tools (http://csscreator.com/tools) are also helpful.

CSSBeauty.com and CSSVault.com are also the sites that I like for samples and resources. :)

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Maxim Lehman on 26 January 2008 at 9:27pm

If you have to do complex layouts on lots of pages, YUI Grids are very powerful and will save you a lot of time. Layout Gala has some nice CSS layout templates for more basic layouts, they make a good starting point. I'm curious to try Blueprint, mostly because of the sweet baseline alignment, but it was a little limited last I checked.

For me a reset file is essential, Eric Meyer has one, Blueprint has one, YUI has one... I really like the YUI reset-fonts-grids file because it standardizes font sizes across browsers and makes font styling much more predictable and controllable. And I like the YUI reset. Even if YUI Grids are overkill for your project, the reset and fonts stylesheets are handy.

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Permalink Reply by Bruno on 21 February 2008 at 12:55am

Hya,

a good reference aswell:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

cheers

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Permalink Reply by Brendon Pascoe on 2 April 2008 at 9:16pm

I typically use pvii's CSS Layout Magic as my base starting point. The code is lean, and compliant, and caters for all sorts of layouts - fixed, fluid, 1,2,3 cols - just great. Course, by the end of it, I'm not sure they would agree with the mods I end up doing to it ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Maxim Lehman on 2 April 2008 at 10:56pm

Interesting, I haven't looked at PVII's stuff in awhile, I will have to check it out. One product I thought looked interesting, to aid in building CSS layouts, is WebAssist's CSS Sculptor:

http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/135_Eric_Meyers_CSS_...

Eric Meyer helped design how it writes CSS, which to me means it's pretty solid. Has anyone tried this product, and if so how was your experience?

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Permalink Reply by Jason Tomlinson on 1 May 2008 at 7:12pm

Hi, I have this extension with Dreamweaver CS3 - it is a very nice product, easy to use. The results are pretty solid. Dreamweaver also has pretty much the same starting css templates but the Webassist one does let you save any settings and modifications, so over time you can build up any variation of a starting design and just tweak the settings for colours, fonts etc each time.
Hope this helps.

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