Skeleton layout example

index.html

<!--HEADER-->
<header>
  <div class="container">
    
    <div class="row">
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <nav>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Work</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Writing</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
          </ul>
        </nav>  
      </div> 
    </div>

    <div class="row">    
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <h1>- Design What You Imagine -</h1>
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        <a href="#" class="btn">Hire me</a> 
      </div>
    </div>
    
    <section class="services">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="twelve columns">
          <h3>My areas of expertise</h3>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="one-half column">
          <a href="#">
            <h4>Graphic Design</h4>
            <span class="fa fa-picture-o"></span>
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            Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem.</p>
          </a>
        </div>
        <div class="one-half column">
          <a href="#">
            <h4>Web Design</h4>
            <span class="fa fa-leaf"></span>
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            Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem.</p>
          </a>
        </div>
      </div><!--end of .row-->
    </section>
  </div><!--end of .container-->
</header>

<!--ABOUT-->
<section class="about">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <h3>Who am I</h3>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
    <div class="row bottom">
      <div class="two-thirds column">
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        sit amet adipiscing sem neque sed ipsum. Nam quam nunc, blandit vel, luctus pulvinar, hendrerit id, lorem.</p>
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        Donec sodales sagittis magna. Sed consequat, leo eget bibendum sodales, augue velit cursus nunc</p>
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        Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim.</p>
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      </div>
      <div class="one-third column">
        <h4>Degrees</h4>
        <ul>
          <li>BA in Information Systems</li>
          <li>MSc in Applied Mathematics </li>
          <li>Phd in Artificial Intelligence</li>
        </ul>
        <h4>Honors</h4>
          <ul>
            <li>1st place in the contest "MyContest"</li>
            <li>Best Paper for 2014</li>
          </ul>
          <a href="#" class="btn">CV</a>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
    <div class="row">
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <h4 class="center">Interested in samples of my work?</h4>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
    <div class="row">
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <a href="#" class="btn block">Visit Codepen</a>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
  </div><!--end of .container-->
</section>

<!--CONTACT-->
<section class="contact">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <h3>Contact</h3>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
    <div class="row">
      <div class="offset-by-two eight columns">
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#" title=""><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a></li>
          <li><a href="#" title=""><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a></li>
          <li><a href="#" title=""><span class="fa fa-dribbble"></span></a></li>
          <li><a href="#" title=""><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a></li>
          <li><a href="#" title=""><span class="fa fa-github"></span></a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
    <div class="row">
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <a href="#" class="btn block btn-blue">Mail me</a>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
    <div class="row">
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <p class="creator">A demo by George Martsoukos. <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-with-skeleton-simple-css-boilerplate">See article</a>.</p>
      </div>
    </div><!--end of .row-->
  </div><!--end of .container-->
</section>

script.js

// Demo by George Martsoukos
// See: http://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-with-skeleton-simple-css-boilerplate

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Skeleton layout example

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style.css

/* GENERAL STYLES
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– */

body {
  background: #FDD761;
  font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial', serif;
  color: white;
}

h1, h3, h4, header .btn {
  font-weight: 700;
}

h1 {
  margin: 100px 0 20px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-size: 2.6rem;
}

h3 {
  margin-bottom: 25px;
  font-size: 2.3rem;
  text-align: left;
}

h4 {
  font-size: 2rem;
}

h3:after {
  content: '';
  display: block;
  width: 10%;
  padding-top: 5px;
  border-bottom: 3px solid whitesmoke;
}

h1 + h4 {
  font-weight: normal;
}

a {
  text-align: center;
  outline: none;
  display: inline-block;
  text-decoration: none;
  background: #fcca2f;
  font-size: 14px;
  color: steelblue;
  text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
  -webkit-transition: all ease .3s;
          transition: all ease .3s;
}

.btn {
  font-size: 1.2em;
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 12px 30px;
}

.block {
  width: 130px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  display: block;
}



/* HEADER STYLES
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– */

header .btn {
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

header a:hover, .about a:hover {
  background: #fcc316;
}

header .btn, .services {
  margin-top: 100px;
}

header {
  padding: 80px 0 150px;
}

.about, .contact {
  padding: 150px 0;
}

header {
  background: url("https://unsplash.it/1080/720/?image=377") no-repeat fixed center / cover;
  text-align: center;
}

nav ul, .contact ul {
  list-style: none;
  font-size: 0;
}

nav li, .contact li {
  margin-bottom: 0;
  display: inline-block;
}

nav li {
  width: 50%;
}

nav a {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  height: 30px;
  padding: 7px 0;
  line-height: 30px;
}

nav li:nth-child(2n+1) a:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: '';
  top: 19.5px;
  right: -2.5px;
  z-index: 10;
  border-radius: 100%;
  background: steelblue;
  width: 5px;
  height: 5px;
}



/* SERVICES STYLES
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– */

.services a {
  padding: 25px;
  background: #fafafa;
  margin-top: 20px;
  border-radius: 4px;
}

.services a:hover {
  color: black;
}

.services span {
  font-size: 5.5em;
  color: #f4ba04;
}

.services a:hover span {
  color: white;
}

.services p {
  margin: 15px 0 0;
}



/* ABOUT STYLES
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– */

.about {
  background: url("https://unsplash.it/1080/720/?image=349") no-repeat fixed center / cover;
  color: black;
}

.about .one-third, 
.about .two-thirds {
  background: white;
  background: rgba(255,255,255,.3);
  padding: 10px;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

.about .one-third {
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.about a {
  margin-top: 10px;
}

.about ul {
  margin-bottom:18px;
}

.about h3:after, .contact h3:after {
  border-color: black;
}

.about .center {
  text-align: center;
}

.about .bottom {
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  padding-bottom: 20px;
}

.about .one-third a {
  margin: 10px auto;
  width: 50%;
  display: block;
} 

.about .two-thirds p:last-child {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}



/* CONTACT STYLES
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– */

.contact {
  color: black;
  text-align: center;
}

.contact p {
  margin: 70px 0 0;
}

.contact ul a {
  margin-top: 50px;
  box-shadow: none;
  background: none;
  margin-left: 30px;
}

.contact li:nth-child(1) a {
  margin-left: 0;
}

.contact span {
  font-size: 2em;
  color: white;
  -webkit-transition: color ease .4s;
          transition: color ease .4s;
}

.contact span:hover {
  color: steelblue;
}

.contact .btn-blue {
  position: relative;
  margin-top: 30px;
  color: white;
  background: steelblue;
  box-shadow: 0 8px #3b6d97;
}

.contact .btn-blue:hover {
  background: #427aa9;
  color: white;
}

.contact .btn-blue:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: '☃';
  top: 5px;
  right: 30px;
  font-size: 1.6em;
}

.contact .btn-blue:active {
  box-shadow: 0 4px #3b6d97;
  -webkit-transform: translateY(4px);
      -ms-transform: translateY(4px);
          transform: translateY(4px);
}

.contact .creator a {
    background: none;
}



/* MEDIA QUERIES STYLES
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– */

@media (min-width: 550px) {

  nav li {
    width: auto;
  }

  a {
    box-shadow: 0 8px #f4ba04;
  }

  nav a {
    padding: 7px;
    border-right: 1px solid #fabd03;
    width: 80px;
  }

  nav li:nth-child(2n+1) a:after {
    content: none;
  }

  nav li:last-child a {
    border-right: none;
  }

  header a:hover, .about a:hover {
    box-shadow: 0 8px #f4ba04;
  }

  header a:active, .about a:active {
    box-shadow: 0 4px #f4ba04;
    -webkit-transform: translateY(4px);
        -ms-transform: translateY(4px);
            transform: translateY(4px);
  }

  .about .one-third {
    margin-top: 0;
  }
  
  .about .one-third a {
    width: 35%;  
  }
  
  .contact .creator a {
    box-shadow: none;
  }

}



@media (min-width: 750px) {

  h1 {
    font-size: 3.5rem;
  }

  h3 {
    font-size: 2.8rem;
  }

  h4 {
    font-size: 2.4rem;
  }

  .services a:hover {
    box-shadow: 0 -8px white;
    -webkit-transform: scale(1.15);
        -ms-transform: scale(1.15);
            transform: scale(1.15);
  }
  
  .contact ul a {
    margin-left: 45px;
  }

  .contact ul span {
    font-size: 3em;
  }

}

styles

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<link href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/123941/skeleton.2.02.css" rel="stylesheet" />