[talmand]

For some reason I've had a preference against using CSS frameworks like this because they often take you away from the pure CSS code. My reasoning being if you end up in an environment where do not have access to the framework can you complete the task at hand?

I guess I would say it's like learning Javascript before using jQuery (which I did) so that you have the basics down.

I suppose I'll have to try a few of them out to see how I feel about it.

Also, I'm quite partial to ColorZilla's Gradient Editor. http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

[phillapier]

Checkout Bourbon–a library of SASS mixins and variables. It aims to be very vanilla, so you'll write the mixins similar to plain CSS. http://thoughtbot.com/bourbon/

[biftek]

Thanks for the heads up on this. I'm really tired of using compass just for the css3 mixins.

[natefaubion]

I don't think so. It's not like it really does things for you or abstracts away the weirdness of CSS like jQuery does for JS. You can't write a functioning website without knowing all the quirks of CSS rendering. The only thing it's done for me is change my muscle memory. I write stylus code without the braces, colons, and semicolons so I often write syntactically wrong CSS on the first pass whenever I'm in an environment without Stylus.