CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design

CSS Frameworks

BlueTrip CSS Framework
A full featured and beautiful CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) framework which combined the best of Blueprint, Tripoli (hence the name), Hartija’s print stylesheet, 960.gs’s simplicity, and Elements’ icons, and has now found a life of its own. Including a 24-column grid, sensible typography styles, clean form styles, a print stylesheet, an empty starter stylesheet, sexy buttons and status message styles.

Compass
This CSS Meta-Framework provides ports of the best of breed CSS frameworks (blueprint, yui, 960) to Sass.

HTML/CSS/JS-Kickstart 0.9
A lightweight library of files and folders for getting started on projects really quickly – a kick-start for static web development.

iPhone-universal
IPhone-universal is a CSS framework for iPhone Web application developers. This tool makes it simple to create an app using different iPhone interfaces.

Useful CSS development tools

Mappet
A visual generator of maps using CSS. Very handy.

Vanilla CSS Un-reset
Vanilla is a CSS “un-reset” that works in tandem with CSS resets such as the Yahoo CSS Reset. Vanilla is meant to be dropped into your stylesheet, tweaked and handled to your liking. It’s meant to be some kind of a baseline stylesheet, so that you don’t have to start over every time.

CSSEd
A small developer editor and validator, a GTK2 application to help create and maintain CSS style sheets for web development.

HTML test page for CSS
The Snipplr html test page for CSS style guide is a good place to test and analyze CSS code. Snipplr is also a public source code repository to store and organize snippets of code to be shared with other designers and developers.

CSS Styling Code Convention Convention
NodeWave provides a complete downloadable CSS Coding Style Convention with guidelines to improve development productivity.

CSS Http Request
Cross-domain AJAX using CSS. Like JavaScript includes, this works because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy that affects XMLHttpRequest. CSSHttpRequest functions similarly to JSONP, and is limited to making GET requests.