Matt S

I recently began playing around with the Blueprint CSS framework. I was a little weary at first because I never thought of CSS as something that could be abstracted into a framework like this and actually speed up development, but Blueprint pulls this off surprisingly well.

PROS:

• Built-in grid, typography, print stylesheet, and other basic styles
• Great for quick prototyping
• Cuts down time spent on cross-browser issues
• Easy to customize
• Relatively small footprint
• Standardizes your CSS (good when working with multiple developers)
• Can get far with little CSS knowledge

CONS:

• Extra markup required
• Non-semantic class names (but you can customize it so it uses semantic class names)
• Style information mixed in with content, so even simple redesigns or style updates will require you to edit markup
• Must use a grid-based design (this is good practice anyway)
• Larger footprint than CSS written from scratch

Having always written CSS from scratch, I have some mixed feelings about Blueprint, but it's worth checking out:

blueprintcss - Google Code

If you do check it out, this online grid generator is a must:

Blueprint Grid CSS Generator