Cutting Edge HTML And CSS Frameworks For Web Designers

 

Every front end developer is striving hard to deliver incredible user interface and with new terms added in the new designs are now intended to deliver more user-friendly interfaces. In order to satiate the growing expectations and needs of the users you need to pick out the most extensive framework.

Thus, in this blog we will discuss the most trending front end frameworks existing in the market.

1) Bootstrap

Bootstrap 3.3.6 was unveiled on 24 Nov .Though it was a much awaited release due for quite a long time but it was quite a satisfactory one as it came with a lot of CSS bug fixes.

The gory details of the launch are:

• Technical support for NuGet package
• JavaScript plugin docs updated to make usage more clear
• Numerous browser bug updates which continues to fix bugs
• Enabled source maps for our compiled minified CSS.
• Local jQuery fallback used to make documentation development easy

Features at a Glance:

Latest version launched: 3.3.6

Popularity: GitHub assigns  75,000+ stars

Description: “Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.”

Guiding principles: RWD and mobile first approach .

Documentation: Good

Size of the framework: 145 KB

Unique components: Jumbotron

Preprocessors: Less and Sass

Icon set: Glyphicons Halflings set

Supports Responsive technology: Yes, fixed, fluid, responsive

Modular: Yes

Add-ons support: None bundled, but many third-party plug-ins are available.

Graphic Customization:  GUI Customizer offers quite basic functionalities. Therefore, the developers have to input values of color manually, as it do not offers color picker.

Browser support: Chrome, Safari,  Firefox, IE8+

License: MIT License (Apache License v2.0 prior to 3.1.0)

2) Foundation

Zurb has unveiled Foundation 6 on November 19 and claims it to be the best version of the platform till date. They call it much lighter, faster, flexible launched with more power and flexibility which provides comprehensive support from model prototyping to product creation.

Features at a Glance:

Latest version launched: 6

Users Following : GitHub assigns  18,000+ stars

Description: “The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world”

Guiding principles: RWD, mobile first approach , semantic web.

Size of the framework: 326 KB

Preprocessors: Sass

Supports Responsive technology: Yes, fluid

Modular: Yes

Icon set: Foundation Icon Fonts

Add-ons support: Yes

Unique components: Clearing Lightbox,  Icon Bar,  Keystrokes,Flex Video, Pricing Tables, Joyride,

Documentation: Good. Along with it there are numerous resources which are available.

Graphic Customization: No GUI customizer, only manual customization.

Browser support: Firefox, Chrome,   IE9+, Safari; along with all the well known mobile operating systems iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7+

License: MIT License

 

3) Pure

Pure is accepted to be one of the most light weighted and modular front end framework which is programmed in pure CSS. The best part of this framework is that it is modular which means that the components can be used in a group or separately depending on the need of the user.

Features at a Glance:

Latest version launched: 0.6.0

Popularity: GitHub assigns  9,900+ stars

Description: “A lightweight, mobile-first, optionally responsive, grid system with modular support for forms, buttons, tables, and menus.”

Guiding principles: SMACSS, minimalism.

Size of the Framework: 18 KB

Preprocessors: None

Supports Responsive Technology : Yes. Supports elastic, fluid, responsive designs

Modular: Yes

Add-ons: None

Unique components: None

Documentation: Good

Graphic Customization: Basic GUI Skin Builder

Browser support: All new versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, ; IE7+; Android 4.x; iOS 6.x, 7.x;

License: BSD License

 

4) Gumby Framework

Apart from all the functionalities which it offers one of the most incredible thing about this framework is that they are inviting people to become ‘digital surgeons‘.

Features at a Glance:

Latest version launched: Gumby V2

Popularity: GitHub assigns 2,900+stars

Description: “A UI component framework based around useful principles from natural language.”

Guiding principles: SAAS Preprocessor, Golden ratio tool for typography

Size of the framework: 552 KB

Preprocessors: Less

Supports Responsive technology: Yes

Modular: Yes

Icon set: Font Awesome

Add-ons: Yes

Unique components: This framework work in accordance to the standards of industry and offers a 12 grid system layout. This framework has the capability of dividing the space of the browser into 12 grids and also renders nested gridding. I has introduced concepts like  Tiles, Hybrid Grids, Semantic Tiles and Fancy Tiles and these functionalities make this framework quite different from the others . Along with all this you get reusable JavaScript and CSS plugins.

Documentation: This framework is extremely well documented. Semantic offers a very well organized documentation, plus a separate website that offers guides for getting started, customizing and creating themes.

Customization: Offers manual customization only, no GUI support.

Browser support: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 8 – 10

5) Semantic UI

With over 50 UI elements and over 3000 CSS variable this Flexbox friendly framework which is  built with EM values for responsive design offers high degree of variable inheritance up to level 3 .

Features at a Glance:

Latest version launched: 2.14

Popularity: GitHub assigns  12,900+ stars

Description: “A UI component framework based around useful principles from natural language.”

Guiding principles: Tag ambivalence, Semantic, responsive.

Size of the framework: 552 KB

Preprocessors: Less

Supports Responsive technology: Yes

Modular: Yes

Icon set: Font Awesome

Add-ons: No

Unique components:  Flag,Divider,  Reveal, Rail, Advertisement, Step, Feed,Card,  Item,  Dimmer,Statistic, Shape Rating, .

Documentation: Very good. It provides a well organized and structured documentation, plus a separate website that offers guides for getting started, customizing and creating themes.

Customization: Offers manual customization. Projects of bigger level can rely on visual language for personalized brand awareness, it offers site themes which offers you to modify variables which fall beneath it which fosters Semantic UI.

Further there are packaged open source themes available for designing projects who needs to be delivered within a short time span.

 

Browser support: Last 2 Versions FF, Chrome, IE 10+, Safari Mac, IE 10+Chrome for Android 44+,    Android 4.4+,  iOS Safari 7+

License: Apache License v2.0

Author Bio:

Jack Calder has been a determined developer of website applications and design. He has been a perfect and personalized  designer which converts PSD to CSS files in nice manner. He has shared an perfect article above on the role of html and css frameworks.