I've talked about Blueprint here in the past because I use it here and on konigi. Fans of Drupal and Blueprint will be happy to hear that Ted Serbinski has released a Drupal theme that utilizes the Blueprint CSS Framework. Keep in mind that this is for fixed-width layouts only.
Among the features announced:
- normalizes Drupal’s CSS to be consistent
- properly aggregates all blueprint CSS files into a single file when this setting is enabled
- put scripts at bottom of page for nice performance gains
- flexible layout, from 1 to 3 columns, based on where you configure your blocks to show (left, center, right)
- SEO optimization without the need for heavy modules and additional queries per page
- better forum icons
- improved forum display and performance
- prevents duplicate form submissions with jQuery
- shows the # of comments below a node since Drupal doesn’t do this by default (usability)
- highlight any comments by the author of the node
- adds a “you need to login / register” box below all comments if you can’t add a comment (usability)
- supports conditional comment subjects, if the setting is off it won’t show a chopped off title of the comment
- uses CSSEdit comments for grouping of styles
Download the Blueprint Theme here.
The May 1st Reboot is a community project that brings together web professionals from all over and encourages them to collectively launch redesigns of their sites on May 1st.
Patrick Haney's is a very simply and elegantly designed site.
Elegant and simply designed, yet sophisticated one page For Sale By Owner real estate site.
Nice muted color scheme and CSS layout.
Ryan Nichols' elegant portfolio site is a nicely designed CSS site.
The CSS presentation itself is quite beautiful. The content of the presentation discusses using advanced CSS techniques to push the limits of standards based layout with XHTML/CSS.
Doug Bowman is one of thoe web designers who exemplifies standards-based web design for me.
Dan Cederholm's blog is a regular stop. He discusses standards-based web design in his notebook. Great icons and a color scheme that's easy on the eyes.
Shaun Inman's cleanly designed weblog is perhaps my favorite of all the weblog designs I've ever seen.