Using Design Patterns To Simplify Publishing

July 19, 2006

I've recently been very taken with Mike Stenhouse's CSS Framework. This blog uses the framework.

What is it? It bascially sets down a set of rules - a framework - for creating a large assortment of websites - using xhtml/css.

There seems to be a good bit of interest in this xhtml/css framework - though I haven't seen a super rally behind it.  Maybe because it doesn't encompase an entirely inclusive/exhaustive set of layout possibilities. Or, more simply, maybe it's because it doesn't have a goofy, spiffy, memorable name.

I do think there can be some great things possible once folks rally behind an agreed-upon framework. When you combine this with modular patterns like different navigation system etc that can be easily plugged into a design - you start to have something pretty dynamic.

Through a "pattern quiz" John Allsopp is trying to gather info about different types of site patterns at his webpatterns.org (based on Dan Cederholm's SimpleQuiz).

Seems like there will be a time soon where there is an agreed upon way of creating a finite set of web site layout patterns - as well as a finite set of component patterns (navigation systems etc). You add this to other framework patterns such as the Prototype-based javascript libraries - as well as the world of "plug-'n-play" widgets of which Feed Player is one - and you have some serious muscle in quickly publishing on the web.

Once we release the 3.0 of this Big Contact I'd like to look into this further. I think it's possible to give website creators/blog creators even more great, flexible tools to build and modify the design of their sites...

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1. henning

   duuuude

   yott

   July 23, 2008

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