I just want to point you to the great Blueprint CSS Framework for verrry easy column/grid based layout.
The aim is simple developing multicolumn layouts in a typographical line.
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Features:
* An easily customizable grid
* Sensible typography
* Relative font-sizes everywhere
* A typographic baseline
* Perfected CSS reset
* A stylesheet for printing
* Compressed version
* No bloat of any kind
I was able to setup a solid layout with blueprint in a very short time:
av.plot-express.com/index.php
take a look to the sourcecode / css files and you will understand.
the integration into phpwcms is similar to include YAML, use CUSTOM Blocks in phpwcms to setup your columnes..
I've kicked the frontend.css and include just a basic.css in the template section. The basic.css includes the blueprintframework on top and my custom styles as followed.
easy! (if you understand phpwcms and css
)The magic of Blueprint is just, they did the math and the logic for you (margins, widths, floats, line-heights) and you just select the classes you need to develop your "holy-grill" - and everything stands in line. The rest of CSS fancy is up to you.
only fixed layouts will work!
Maybe you will find this useful.
m.
