Grid Based Design Toolbox
My favorite place to go for Grid based design information is The Grid System. It’s a ‘must bookmark’ in my opinion. Don’t forget to check out the new Grid System Forum too. I’m a minimalist designer so I believe the grid is one of the most important elements of web design. There are many articles and resources on the web, I’ve chosen to pick through them all and compile my best resources/tools all in one fell swoop. Keep in mind, there are plenty of list posts out there but these are my ‘go to’ grid resources.
After all – why would you want to search for it if I’ve done it for you?
Tools
- Grid Maker
- 960.gs
- Fluid 960 Grid System
- The Golden Grid
- Grid Calculator
- Gridmaker for Photoshop CS4
- Baseline Rhythm Calculator
- Typogridphy
- Gridr Buildrrr
- Grid Layouts
- GridFox
- Illustrator 974px Grid System
- Sharing the Grid
- 960px Photoshop Grid Template
- Grid Bookmarklet
- Layout Grid Bookmarklet
- JQuery Grid Plugin
Gallery/Showcase
How To
- Grid Design Basics – Grids for web page layouts
- Grid-Based Design 101
- Grid-based Layout
- Designing Grid Systems For Flash
- Design A Fresh Blog Theme On The 960 Grid
- Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques
- Typographic Grid
- GridControl: A Grid Overlay System for Design Development
- Prototyping With The Grid 960 CSS Framework
- Seven Smooth Steps to Superb Grids
- Designing with grids in Photoshop
Wordpress Themes
Noteworthy Articles
Mark Boulton
- Subdividing ratios
- Ratios and complex grid systems
- Grid systems for web design: Part 1
- Grid systems for web design: Part 2 Fixed
- Grid systems for web design: Part 3 Fluid
- Why use a grid?
- Grids are good – Design – SXSW
- Feeling your way around grids
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Great list Adelle thanks! Will put it to good use. :)
you guys are most certainly welcome! I was sick of searching in my bookmarks for all these individually :)
Excellent resource list Adelle =) Been working with grid system for a each project I got since several months ago, even started as some sort of evangelist on this matter at my office, since most developers as well as designers over my city seems to believe that tables layouts are so awesome yet… Gotta change that somehow around here!
Excellent resource list. Thanks for putting it together
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Thanks so much Adelle. I have been wanting to get into the grid based designs. This makes it that much easier. Always great stuff from the Fuel Brand Group!
Thanks Adelle, that’s a really useful resource, bookmarked for future ref :)
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Great list of resources, well worth bookmarking itself!
One site that I recommend it the relatively new http://gridinator.com/ particularly if you work with ems-based grids.
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Simon thanks for the link, checking it out now!
Awesome set of resources, this has landed a place firmly in my bookmar bar!
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Thank you for mentioning The Golden Grid. I think you may find interesting my article “In the search of Holy Web Grid” http://www.vcarrer.com/2008/12/in-search-of-holy-web-grid.html Great list!
Thanks Adelle for the list. As a grid lover this page is bookmarked on my bookmarks bar. So keep this post updated ;)
Wow, great list, its going to take me some time to go through all of these. Thank you for putting it together.
Great collection of links. Thx a lot for that. Makes my life much easier :)
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Awesome, grids are great :) Thanks for including Design By Grid!
Great selection of resources and you’ve linked some fantastic articles.
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This is an awesome list, I will definitely be sharing this with my contacts. Coming from a graphic design background I really love working to a grid and fell in love with BlueprintCSS. So much so, I took it and the best parts of other frameworks to compile my own. Gris systems are great. Thanks again.
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Nice article/round up. Coincidence that I started a new project today using fluid 960 (so far very good!)
Great list! There are so many great resources for grid kits and libraries, I remember the days when people didn’t know what Grid Layout for web was! :)
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Holy Crap!! This is by far the most #awesomesauce of #grid I’ve seen in like forever.
#welldone Adelle ;)
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Exactly what I was looking for. Nice list I will definitely use for my next layout.
Talk about snubbing Blueprintcss.org
Hey, thanks for mentioning the Illustrator 974px Grid System that I created. :D
We made http://gridpapr.com to quickly build layouts, discuss, share ideas and contribute
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Great tut. Thanks you very much !
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Great! thanks very much.
Antonio Carusone of Aisle One has also set up http://www.thegridsystem.org/ which is worth a look.
I think this movement can’t be pushed hard enough and try to incorporate the grid in all of my designs whether in print or online.
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What about Blueprint CSS from Google’s Summer of Code? That’s one of the best, in my opinion.
-Mike
Really a good tool. Congratulations.
Great resource
Excellent list, some new ones for me to check out here. I recently found Boks (http://toki-woki.net/p/Boks/) an Air app for building grid frameworks – thought you might be interested. I rather like it although not used it as a starting point for anything yet.
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Great List !!
Thanks for sharing, I was looking for
something like that about grids.
Cheers !
Its a very good list. Thanks for sharing.
Great list. I am a big fan of grid based design, although i do prefer to code the CSS myself! :)
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Great list, thanks for sharing
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Grid Systems – Making grids in Illustrator : http://font.is/?p=1226
Hi, great list. This is an instant bookmark.
We developed a little script much like the grid bookmarklet that some of you might prefer
http://code.google.com/p/ingrid/
Good resource, It really helped me lot. Thanks for posting.
great resources.. thank you for sharing..