Free CSS Frameworks For Instant Development of Website Layouts
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is an easy to use language that allows the change of any HTML document presentation form independent from the web page content. The frequent usage of CSS for for websites layouts styling determined the apparition of CSS frameworks.
The CSS frameworks are useful when a designer or a webmaster needs to create a new template or start the building of a project from the ground. The CSS framework acts like a foundation that provides the necessary options to speed up the website development. As a consequence, there will be more time available for project testing and improvement.
Many of the existing CSS frameworks are free to use and offers various layout structures types, ranging from simple to complex code and web page elements distributions in case of a certain design. The most important characteristic of any CSS framework is represented by its footprint (file size): the smaller is always the better in achieving optimal page loading time.
Notable CSS frameworks are Emastic and Malo, due to their unique structure and functionality optimally correlated with a small file size.
Emastic is a lightweight (compressed is less than 4kb in size) CSS framework having enough features that make it able to be used in the creation of any project type. The developer can specify a personalized width of the page, use fixed or fluid columns and practically implement any additional functionality with an easy to use naming convention and code structure.
Malo is another CSS framework derived from Emastic, but with fewer layout development options, suitable for small or medium websites. It has a small footprint (only 0,25 kb) and easy to customize features, being also flexible and easy to implement. Information related to other top CSS frameworks are available in this article.
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