Building A Web Framework To Do Anything On The Web Tech Part 1

Welcome to our series: Building A Web Framework To Do Anything On The Web! I’m going to show you what tools, methodologies and technologies I use (and that you should use) to build your own web applications/programs/sites. I’m going to divide this up into multiple parts and also multiple sub-sections: Technology, Design and 3rd party tools.
Step 1 in the Technology sub-section; I will be discussing the tools I use to build a site from scratch. Not a wordpress affiliate marketing site, but an actual website.
From the ground up – first we need a solid base upon which to build. CSS – can’t make a site without CSS. Here’s the framework I use:


CSS-Boilerplate: This is, IMO, the best CSS framework out there – it’s not the most complete framework, or the most scalable, etc – but pound for pound, it is clean, simple to use, and has an example file that gives you ever single thing you need to have to use the framework. I always sites with this framework. Love it!

For web functionality these days, Javascript can do everything you need for making a rich interface – IMO, Javascript is quickly eclipsing Flash, Flex, and the DOA Microsoft technology Silverlight, for building feature rich, attractive and dynamic UI for websites.
JQuery: Yes, the most popular javascript framework on the web. There’s a reason for that. The best combination of usability, power, and flashy gadgets. If you want to do something with JavaScript, chances are excellent that someone has written a plugin to do it already.