"Even The Playing Field" CSS Framework
Oh no! It’s yet another CSS framework that can help you build a website with a strong CSS foundation and make it easier to build layouts across all browsers. “Even the Playing Field” is a CSS framework based on a strong reset and base, so you’ll have to understand CSS a little more than the average guru.
If your a CSS developer, you know the pains of getting your projects working, and looking correctly in browsers across both the Windows and Mac platform. I’ve been working professionally with CSS for the last 2 years, including one year at visicswire, not to mention I’ve taken 3 years worth of web design courses that have taught me much about CSS as well. So I feel like I know a little more than your average CSS designer out there now-a-days.
About 6 months ago I got tired of grabbing CSS reset files from Eric Meyer and Yahoo, every time I created a website. Not to mention I had to make up my own base stylesheet every time as well. So I decided to start working on my own CSS framework, that would be based on a strong reset and base. Over the past couple of months I’ve worked my way up to version 1.3 which I feel is up for public release.
Unlike the other CSS frameworks out there, “Even the Playing Field” does not include classes to make column and grid designs right out of the box. So you will need to understand CSS at least a little to get started. Each version includes a master stylesheet which imports your reset, base, and grid stylesheet for you, and there’s an ie stylesheet if you need to make any I.E. specific tweaks.
I do plan on keeping this up-to-date, so please check back every now and then for a new release. Eventually I’ll get a website set up specifically for the framework, and maybe offer all versions as downloads from a public svn account or something.
Interested in trying it out?
- Download version 1.3
- Download version 1.4 – Updated font sizes.