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Originally Posted by littleBird  Is a little bit of naming convention a small price to pay for a huge head start on manageable page layout, cross-browser issues and a host of other tried and tested usefulness?
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Both have valid points. I personally have always hand crafted my layouts. It does mean I have to play around a fair bit with them though. So in a way the Yahoo! layout would be a godsend, but it does employ a certain amount of divitis and I wonder how easy it would be to maintain for those unfamiliar with it.
Lets say you develop a site for a client, hand it over and another web development firm takes up where you left off. How are they going to understand you nested layout? Certainly you would hopefully document it, but what are the chances of that from your experience in the industry? Not high I can say.
The good thing about the framework is that its separated into smaller parts, so you can take what you like and ignore the rest. I guess you could even take the grid itself and give it a more conventional name. Only problem is upgrading to a later version of the grid in future.
It also depends on how complex your website becomes, most basic client sites for a small business won't need to complexity of a grid based layout.