| The two main designers that started the grid-craze were Mark Boulton and Khoi Vinh. Some resources from them: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-st... http://www.subtraction.com/2004/12/31/grid-computi How to use grids? It is usually as simple as adding some css, divs and classes. At its most basic, you can use a gridpaper background or this javascript gridder: http://gridder.andreehansson.se/ that works well with the http://960.gs grid framework. Why I use grids? - maintainability and cooperation - visual consistency across browsers - less development time spent with display bugs Why I don't use grids? - Can become a bit boring/holding you back - Not all designs work with even columns (for example those based on the golden ratio) - Code bloat (you are using divs like columns and rows, in almost the same way one would layout a page with tables, also devs sometimes forget to remove the unused classes from the production CSS) |