Coding a website or internet app can be a challenge. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) comes to the rescue. One of the major enhancements in CSS technology is the Flexbox.
I've always rejected using a CSS Framework. As a website and web applications developer, our staff of designers and coders tried their best to steer the company towards using Bootstrap, a move I regularly rejected.
I'm more apt to use a framework these days. They do make development more rapid than without the framework.
However, I still find most CSS frameworks to be incomplete and close to junk. This category exists to offer some suggestions, code snippets and my opinions.
There are 10 posts in this category:
Looking at all the component CSS frameworks, I see so much wasted code. Curated ... hogwash. I'm sure a lot of this junk started out in the infancy of responsive grids. Add a bit of space to a container. Add a bit of space to a row. Add a bit of space to a column. Whoops, first item ... remove some...
A bit over one year ago, I was contacted by a friend with a problem on his business website. The problem was that far too many of the emails he received were junk mail – originating from the forms on his website. One form was a general Contact Us page, the other form was similar but included a...
Variables and conditional statements were widely requested by users since at least 2010. The consortium published a specification that included wording for variables back in 2012 ... but not widely implemented until 2018-19. Since the implementation, variables are not well understood and not well...
Have a total of six utilities now. Three to minify, and three to beautify. All unique builds written in PHP. Minify: Minify CSS preserves "attribution" comments - those are comments that start with /*! and end with */ typically these are destroyed by PHP minifiers because they look like...
There's a bunch of good things came out of this intensive review of CSS frameworks. The first four are PHP scripts for real time "beautifying" and "miniizing" of CSS (and also javascript) files. Real time means that it is processing in real time while the page is loading and inserting the result in...
Final thoughts? well, sort of. I've finished my own CSS Framework. Through the process, I've had the opportunity to study the structure and code of most of the major CSS frameworks. That included component based frameworks, utility-first frameworks, smaller (or "micro") frameworks, as well as...
The articles just don't make sense. They sound like they do, they read like they do ... but until someone properly defines categories of CSS Frameworks, the articles CAN'T MAKE SENSE! Period. That's even true of the market share statistics that are available. According to the market share...
Bulma I am thoroughly familiar with, Bootstrap - not as much. I spent the past few days going over the classes. I was looking for the same kind of foolishness I found in other packages. Looking for useless code. Looking for ways to improve. Looking for bloat. The result is that I am shaking my head...
Yesterday I wrote that I had created a conversion utility (in PHP) to take a Bulma CSS Framework grid and convert it directly into my CSS Framework. I did do that, and solved the issue of different breakpoints. I wanted to further refine the conversion utility and do a full conversion, not just the...
As I get closer to finishing up this project, thoughts turned to converting my components and some of my projects over to my new CSS Framework. Still haven't named it yet. I did build a converter to change all the class names from Bulma CSS Framework. over to my new CSS Framework. Ran into a few...