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PUBLIC MARKS from sbrothier with tags "graphic resource" & "grid layout"

2010

2008

GridFox - The Grid Layout Firefox Extension » Eric Puidokas » Programming and Designing for the Web

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Enter GridFox. GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. If you can open it in Firefox, you can put a grid on top of it. It’s easy to customize, allowing you to create the exact grid you designed your layout around.

Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine

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Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing and presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience by creating predictable patterns for users to follow. From designer’s point of view they allow for an organized methodology for planning systematic layouts.

2007

Grid Layout

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Khoi Vinh has been touting Grid Layouts for years. From his efforts there have been many, many solutions to helping people use Grid Layouts successfully. Thanks to a recent brilliant idea of Jon Hicks and code execution by Teevio, I present to you Grid Layout JS.

GridMaker Reboot - Article - andrewingram

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A few months ago I wrote GridMaker to aid in producing grid-based web design mock-ups in Photoshop (and later Fireworks). Whilst very primitive it was well-received and many have informed me how useful they’ve found it. At the same time it was clear that there were a number of issues so I went back to GridMaker and made a number of changes.

Grid Calculator

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Change the settings (by dragging the sliders, clicking on the bars, or editing the values) to calculate the overall width of your grid.

Andy Budd::Blogography: Layout Grid Bookmarklet

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Inspired by Khoi Vinh’s post about using a background image of a grid for layout, and a subsequent post over at Smiley Cat about the same thing, I decided to knock up a quick Photoshop style Layout Grid Bookmarklet

2005

Subtraction: The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw

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An in-depth look at the complicated layout grid behind The Onion.

Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 4 : Journal : Mark Boulton | Information design

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Layout seems to be a hot topic at the moment, mostly prompted by the ALA redesign and the numerous discussions of the choice by Jason and the ALA team to go 1024 for a fixed width. I'm not going to go into my thoughts on ALA in too much depth here, there's been a lot of that already, but it seems like the right time to get this article out.