For my new project, I was looking for a good css layout to use. I have never been comfortable pulling an entire theme I found online into my project. I find it too messy because I wouldn't know what is going on in those styles and layouts for the most part and I would leave most of it unused. What I used to do is extract some layouts, styles etc. from the theme I like and build on that idea.

Last week twitter released there collection of css and js which can be easily used as a framework for your site's design. You can check out their blog post here and the code is here. I was looking into it and through hackernews I found some other similar frameworks like skeleton, blueprint, boilerplate, gridless, 960.js and so on. I ended up going with skeleton because it looked simple, lightweight and easy to use.

After tinkering with it for few days now, I think any one like me who is not good at these UI things and pretty much hates doing it but have no other option should definitely give it a shot.

That's it for now. Back to my floats, styles, and clearfix!

Cheers,

Mahesh Murthy