Within the download package there are printable sketch sheets, design layouts and a CSS file that have identical measurements. You have two templates, a 12 column grid divided into portions of 60px and a 16 column grid divided into 40px.
Each column has 10 pixels of margins on the left and right, which create 20 pixel wide gutters between columns. Homepage : Download : Download the Demo : View the You are taken through the basics of loading the framework, so you can start developing with Working with Prototyping With The Grid CSS Framework This article covers the entire prototyping process, it explains the basics of Grid , planning the grid for a design and coding the prototype.
As quick as that. Using the CSS framework for the layout and rest of the theme, you are shown how this will greatly speed up your productivity. This tutorial was designed more for web design theory than Photoshop technique, but spends considerably more time on design theory and application.
If a grid unit contains grid children, the first child in a row will need a class of alpha and the last child in a row requires the class name omega. This makes it a highly flexible base number to work with.
Their work spurred me to create my own. In addition to design template files, there are app plugins for Photoshop and Fireworks included in the official download. Additionally, DMXzone has created a Dreamweaver extension , which is available free to members of their site. Web Designer Depot featured an article on writing less code by styling tags directly.
Nettuts has both a tutorial and video. The Grid System is free to use, and may be repurposed to meet your specific needs. Several projects have already spun off, including versions built to be fluid and responsive. Additionally, it is has been adapted as a theme for Drupal. If you want a responsive grid framework, check out Unsemantic. Essence The Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of pixels.
Dimensions The column grid is divided into portions that are 60 pixels wide. Purpose The premise of the system is ideally suited to rapid prototyping, but it would work equally well when integrated into a production environment.
More Columns For those more comfortable designing on a column grid, an alternative version is also included. Code View comprehensive code on the demo page. Plugins In addition to design template files, there are app plugins for Photoshop and Fireworks included in the official download. Tutorials Web Designer Depot featured an article on writing less code by styling tags directly.
Derivatives The Grid System is free to use, and may be repurposed to meet your specific needs. Hosted by DreamHost. Create a directory on your machine, throw in the files you downloaded and create an index.
The design features thin gray bars at the top and bottom of the page. We want these to stretch all the way across the page so we place them outside of the div. Download the kits for each font and place the various font files in your project file.
In the CSS that comes with each kit you should find the font-face code for embedding that font. Grab the snippet for each font and paste it into your stye.
Since we already added the header to our HTML, all we need to do make it appear is add some basic styling. The first thing that appears after the header is the navigation. For the HTML we just need a standard unordered list with some links. Next we need to set a whole bunch of styles for the navigation. Links, unordered lists, list items and hover effects all have to be worked out.
To make the set as a whole adhere to the right side of our container div, we floated the nav right. Everything else is just a bunch of basic styling such as color, font-size, etc.
To differentiate the link on hover I applied a simple underline. At this point your page should be starting to take shape.
Make sure it looks close to the preview below. Inside of that div place an h2 tag and a paragraph tag with some content.
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