Dirk Jesse’s extensive (X)HTML/CSS Framework offers the whole bunch of default-templates for a number of simple or more complex web-projects. YAML is based on web standards and supports every modern web browser. All Internet Explorer’s major rendering bugs are countered. YAML fully supports all IE versions from 5.x/Win to 7.0.Apart from a number of standard-conform layouts the framework also offers a debugging stylesheet, print...

You need time to fully understand the framework.“For the average user, [..] the time required to understand the architecture of the framework far outweighs the menial task of coding it from scratch.” [Why I don’t use frameworks]You need a close familiarity with your code’s architecture.Using external CSS frameworks, you still need a profound understanding of your code. You need to know exactly how your framework is actually built....

A framework is a basic (usually abstract) conceptual structure which you can use as a “scratch” for your web-projects. For instance, instead of defining global reset, consistent baseline, typographic rules or basic styles for forms over and over again — every time you work on a new project — you can prepare a default-style once and reuse it in all your future projects. This is what you call a CSS Framework.CSS frameworks don’t...

You increase your productivity and avoid common mistakes.If you develop several sites of the similar nature, an abstraction of CSS code can dramatically speed up your productivity, help you to avoid common mistakes and simplify the management of CSS code.You normalize your code/class base.You have a common “default” CSS-code and (X)HTML-markup, so you always use the same IDs and class names in your projects. Code consistency...