Skeleton

Skeleton is a simple, responsive boilerplate to kickstart any responsive project.

Check out http://getskeleton.com for documentation and details.

Getting started

Install Global Dependancies

• Node.js
• bower: [sudo] npm install bower -g
• grunt.js; [sudo] npm install -g grunt-cli

Install Local Dependancies

• Download zip or clone the repo
• cd to project folder
• run [sudo] npm install (first time users)
• run grunt (to watch and compile less files)

What's in the download?

The download includes Skeleton's CSS, Normalize CSS as a reset, a sample favicon, and an index.html as a starting point.

skeleton/
├── index.html
├── css/
│   ├── normalize.min.css
│   └── skeleton.css
├── less/
│   └── skeleton.css
├── images/
│   └── favicon.ico
└── README.md

Why it's awesome

Skeleton is lightweight and simple. It styles only raw HTML elements (with a few exceptions) and provides a responsive grid. Nothing more.

• Minified, it's less than a kb
• It's a starting point, not a UI framework
• No compiling or installing...just vanilla CSS

Browser support

• Chrome latest
• Firefox latest
• Opera latest
• Safari latest
• IE latest

The above list is non-exhaustive. Skeleton works perfectly with almost all older versions of the browsers above, though IE certainly has large degradation prior to IE9.

License

All parts of Skeleton are free to use and abuse under the open-source MIT license.

Colophon

Skeleton was built using Sublime Text 3 and designed with Sketch. The typeface Raleway was created by Matt McInerney and Pablo Impallari. Code highlighting by Google's Prettify library. Icons in the header of the documentation are all derivative work of icons from The Noun Project. Feather by Zach VanDeHey, Pen (with cap) by Ed Harrison, Pen (with clicker) by Matthew Hall, and Watch by Julien Deveaux.

Acknowledgement

Skeleton was created by Dave Gamache for a better web.