As a frontend developer there are few things that excite me more than getting some great designs from a designer and preparing to slice and mark it up. But after four years of starting new projects and gathering all the assets I need for the site structure (you know, stuff like swfobject, jquery, reset stylesheets etc) I suddenly had an epiphany. What if I created a template that includes said assets to make it smoother to get rocking? Yeah, I know. Something I probably should have done long ago.
So here it is, for the good of me, the other frontend developers at Rain, and anyone else who may want to use it. I’ll try to keep it updated as new versions of the assets come out. This new site template package includes the following assets which are most commonly used here at Rain:
- jQuery v1.3.2
- Swfobject v2.2 and expressinstall.swf
- XHTML 1.0 transitional doctype
- Eric Meyer’s reset stylesheet
- Shadowbox
- Drew Diller’s IE6 PNG support (hopefully we won’t need this much longer)
- Spacer GIFs (just kidding)
We don’t always use all of these assets, but it’s easier to remove them then track them down and add them. If you have other suggestions, recommendations, or comments we’d love to hear them.
Very nice. A good start of a template to Take over the world!