960 Grid System – easy and fast
So, I’ve been looking around at web design resources on the interweb and I happened upon the 960 Grid System. So what is it? From the 960.GS site:
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.
It’s basically a CSS framework that helps you get your main site layout down so you can focus on the other parts of its design.
I’ll be using it. It makes laying out sites wicked easy and has almost no learning curve.
It’s not for everyone (and not for every website), but it doesn’t claim to be. What it sets out to do, it does well.
Thanks goes to Nate for the great tool!
Oh yeah, I also have some Inkscape templates for designing sites that I’ve created. I’ll be posting them soon. SVG FTW!
One Response to “960 Grid System – easy and fast”
You might be interested in looking at http://www.yaml.de/en/home.html
The 960 system is based on pixel “perfect” designs. The YAML framework is based more on fluid columns, although it is much more robust than that. I used it on one project, and enjoyed it. At the same time I’m really not a designer. I’m a programmer, and I wanted a tool that would let me put up an xhtml/css site with out being overly concerned with css’s inconsistencies.
If you are curious the website that I used YAML for is vacancy.thelances.net
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