{"id":1142,"date":"2014-11-16T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2014-11-16T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:00:55","slug":"oscmax-and-templates-responsive-css-and-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2014\/11\/oscmax-and-templates-responsive-css-and-frameworks\/","title":{"rendered":"osCmax and Templates, Responsive, CSS, and frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back I was working up a site in osCmax (osCommerce fork) and while the templating system was good it left a lot of issues with cross browser compatibility. I blogged several <a href=\"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/blueprint-css-framework-as-an-oscmax-template\/\">posts <\/a>and some lengthy commentary on how I set it up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueprintcss.org\/\">Blueprint<\/a>, a CSS framework.<\/p>\n<p>Revisiting osCmax recently I am now looking again at templates or themes and I have noted that Blueprint has not been updated since 2011 only a short while after my last efforts into my Blueprint for osCmax efforts.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I am doing more reading, and particularly on the more recent Responsive frameworks. Blueprint may well have atrophied simply due to the rapid increase in mobility issues for web design.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d observe that in some cases I expect that I do not need a responsive website and unless I know that I am working to a market that has a prevalence of mobile visits, then what is the point ? I have a particular site that I manage and I know from its&#8217; stats over 10 years or more of views, that even today 80% of users are PC based and the 20% tend to be more unknowns than emphatically mobile. Further, even if the 20% were all mobile users, they may well be ok with the existing CSS styles that still present the site in a usable fashion on a tablet. Phone and small screen users may also be ok, and even if I &#8216;ask the audience&#8217; do I get a response that I can use?<\/p>\n<p>At this stage I am thinking that if I do deploy a responsive framework, then I will do so as a backend &#8216;good idea&#8217; to maybe future-proof the site for an advent of a mobile tipping point. And to achieve that I should review the possible frameworks, just not from a &#8216;mobile-first&#8217; perspective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back I was working up a site in osCmax (osCommerce fork) and while the templating system was good it left a lot of issues with cross browser compatibility. I blogged several posts and some lengthy commentary on how I set it up with Blueprint, a CSS framework. Revisiting osCmax recently I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[73,74,75,98,99],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oscommerce-oscmax","category-web-sites","tag-oscmax","tag-oscommerce","tag-responsive","tag-template","tag-theme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}