Using a CSS framework for designing a website
Name
Mairit Vikat
Abstract
The present Bachelor’s thesis presents an overview of the creation of websites using HTML and CSS languages and the freeware CSS framework Blueprint. The purpose of the thesis was to examine the problems that may occur during the creation of a website with and without a CSS framework.
To that end, two examples of websites were created – a personal website with a simple layout and another website with a more complex layout. Both websites were first created without a CSS framework and then by the aid of Blueprint CSS framework.
After creating these websites, some parameters of each website were analysed – the size of the HTML and CSS files, the total volume of HTTP requests and the loading speed of the page.
Then the parameters of websites made without the framework and with Blueprint CSS framework were compared.
The comparison indicates that a CSS framework does not change the total volume of HTTP requests enough to affect the loading speed of a website. However it does speed up the process of coding a website’s design. This means that the coders may use a CSS framework to change the process of coding a website’s design quicker and more effective without having to worry that the use of a framework would make the website load slower.
Graduation Thesis language
Estonian
Graduation Thesis type
Bachelor - Computer Science
Supervisor(s)
MSc Gunnar Nellis
Defence year
2010