Slides of my Fronteers talk

CSS & HTML, 11 May 2009, 2 minute read

On the 8th of may I gave a presentation on CSS frameworks at a Fronteers meeting at Mirabeau in Eindhoven. I made the slides in Prezi as an experiment, which proved to be a very interesting way of presenting.

The presentation #

Or watch it here, if full screen is more of your thing: CSS frameworks by Kilian Valkhof. It’s in Dutch.

The presentation is a general overview of the current CSS frameworks, both client side and server side. It gives a rundown of the way they work, what their (dis)advantages are and which one you should use. Just kidding ;)

I managed to keep SenCSs out of the presentation, for its larger part. The most fun discovery was that very little people knew about the server-side options like sass and cssscaffold. They provide a powerful way to manage your CSS and allow you to write smarter css, faster. It’s where the cool stuff will be happening :)

Prezi was interesting to work with, even though their sloppy coding prohibited me from making my presentation on my normal pc, a 64bit Ubuntu installation. It worked nicely in a 32bit VM though. Prezi, if you want a horde of smart, creative early adopters to use your product, pay me and I’ll fix your code ;)

The Meeting #

Thanks to Martin for hosting the May meeting, Mirabeau in Eindhoven has an awesome looking office. It was our most southern meeting yet, and there were more people than I expected, so that was all good.

Besides my presentation, Arjan Eising gave a talk about WAI-ARIA. It was very interesting and he had some nice code examples, though I had hoped to hear a little bit more about the juxaposition between it and HTML5.

I also got rid of about 60 more stickers, which have been going like hot buns ever since they got the Zeldman seal of approval.

If you want to host a Fronteers meeting in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us!