A Path Less Taken

I’m a developer. Specifically these days, I’m a web developer. I enjoy spending time creating solutions (read applications) for the web. A key part of building a good web application is an effective layout. When I started my new project I went looking for something to help simplify the process of getting a good web 2.0 layout. What I found was the 960 Grid System. This clean and elegant CSS Framework developed by Nathan Smith is both easy and fun to use.

It’s funny how the web works. I started off reading about how to set up a new project in Kohana v3 PHP Framework. A link there took me to the source code of a site by shadowhand, one of the Kohana v3 core developers. That lead me to the site of w.ings consulting which is the web development business of Woody Gilk (aka shadowhand). From there I went to the BlueTrip CSS Framework page which was pretty cool and which I will for sure try on my new project. BlueTrip was created by Mike Crittenden so I checked out his blog. Turns out that Mike’s blog is powered by Chyrp blogging software, which is written in PHP and which I have never encountered before. Not that I need another blogging software (WordPress), but it’s always fun to find new things.