CSS Sticky Footer
CSS Sticky Footer
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If you are looking for a good pure CSS footer solution, look no further. CSS Sticky Footer works for over 50 Windows, Linux, and Mac-based browsers. Included in this list are the latest releases of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer.
CSS Sticky Footer is developed by Steve Hatcher, and is based on the Exploring Footers article from A List Apart, and takes suggestions from Cameron Adams’ footerStickAlt, and The Pure CSS Footer example from lwis.net. It applies a clear fix hack to keep the footer in place in Google Chrome and other browsers where the footer would float up when you resized the window. The clearfix also fixes problems that might occur if you are using floats to create two or three column layouts.
Far from being perfect, it does have its share of issues. The first one deals with margins, which can easily be solved by changing margins to padding instead. The second one deals with the use of relative font sizes such as % or em, something which many of the more advanced CSS gurus like me are very much fond of. The author suggests using px instead, which many find unacceptable.
To get started, check out the HowTo page for details on how to implement the CSS Sticky Footer.
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We’re big fans of css frameworks. CSS frameworks are great providing quality control. It provides us the ability to get our job done quickly, efficiently and more consistently.
The 3.7 Design Boilerplate contains the file structure and the files needed to quickly start coding. It might take a while to get a hang of our id/class usages. Nonethless, it’s pretty KISS and makes sense.
Folders Structure
The following are some folders and they’re pretty self explanatory
/css – CSS files
/images – Images
/js – Javascript Files
/clientfiles – PSD, .ai, etc files go here
/concepts – concepts – currently and eventually will be moved to client files
/copy – contains word documents or text for the content of the website
CSS Files Explained
Reset.css – Some things that we commonly practice is resetting stylesheets so that they’re all at a beginning point. This is something that Eric Meyer’s blogged about.
Grid.css - We’ve added a set of grids that you can use. It’s actually a gride from 960.gs. You’re welcome to switch out any grid stylesheet here.
helper.css – This file gives you a running start if you’re prototyping a page. You can quickly using classes move block elements around with margins or padding. An example class : “ml-5” adds 5px of padding to the left side. “mh-10″ adds left and right padding. “padr-5” provides 5 px of padding on the right side, etc.
This file also contains the very important class: clearfix. If you’re not familiar with it it just primarily solves the problems of container div’s that don’t totally addup the total height of all of the child containers.
main.css This file allows is to create a base file from the reset to provide some type of consistency and legibility to the type. Often after type is reset the type is too small to read.
style.css This last file you’ll have to use locally because it’ll be key and important in customizing your website. All the other files you can link from the google code repository. This file is the file that will contain your site specific and context specific css code.
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