Articles
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Grid Based News Designs from Down Under
Australian News Websites provide an excellent example of grid based design.
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Inspiration Charge of April: Grid Systems
This month, Inspiration Charge covers some great stuff about Grid systems on design.
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65 Resources for Grid-Based Design
Grid-based design is obviously a popular approach in modern web design. Ford designers that use grids, this post includes links to useful tools that can improve your efficiency and effectiveness, as well as some articles for advanced techniques. For those of you who are not as familiar with the details of grid-based design, there are plenty of articles and learning resources here.
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Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques
A grid that has creatively overlapping, escaping, or energizing columns leads to a more enjoyable user experience. Discovering or planning areas of the design that will have some freedom will lead to more interesting and appealing design solutions.
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Making and Breaking the Grid Book Review
Jonathan Christopher reviews Making and Breaking the Grid
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Gridlasticness
A few notes when trying to create a grid layout using ems, from Dan Cederholm of Simplebits.
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On grid design
"I’ve heard the term “grid design” more than I’ve seen the color blue around the web this year. Why such a resurgence of such an ancient technique? But more importantly — why doesn’t anyone use grids? I was always taught that grids were lines of integer multiples crossing both the vertical and horizontal. Then again, I’ve never been “trained” formally in design either. But here’s my opinion, for what it’s worth."
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Using Spreadsheets to Brainstorm Grid Layouts
The author discusses his use of Excel in experimenting with different grid configurations.
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Designing with a Grid
Andy Pearson discusses his recent grid based redesign.
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Grid-based design: Part 2
The purpose of this article is to give you an idea of how to approach blog theme design using a grid system.