We’ve been using the YUI CSS framework for a lot of our recent work including this site as well.  The YUI CSS framework is broken down by Yahoo in four different sections Reset, Base, Fonts, and Grids.  The four sections are available in a number of different formats as either files for each section or a single file with minified versions as well.  For final production we use the minified version that includes Reset, Fonts, and Grids and it’s been recommended to use this file because it’s in it’s smallest possible form and it is available through a permalink from Yahoo.

I had looked at Google blueprintcss for a while as well as YUI CSS and both had it’s pros and cons, but continued to use my own base files that I had been used to working with for quite a long time.  So what actually switched me over to YUI CSS?  I’ve been contracting through SolutionSet for a couple of years now and Nate Koechley from Yahoo came in gave a presentation about YUI CSS and just YUI in general.  It got me thinking that this was a good idea, but was it going to replace my everyday use case files.  It wasn’t convinced until I watched Nate’s video in YUI Theater.

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