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Designing Grid Systems Does Not Begin And End With 960

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Designing Grid Systems Does Not Begin And End With 960
Date: 
September 4, 2009 - 14:50 - 15:40
Room: 
Adenauer
Track: 
User experience and design
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Beginner
Tags: 
design
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themers
Tags: 
grids
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favorite-of-the-king
Language: 
English

Grid Systems should underpin any well-considered web layout. Applying a cookie-cutter approach to this – but using a CSS framework such as Blueprint or 960 (and the Drupal 960 theme) – means you're cutting out a vital process in the design of your site: the design of the grid system itself.

This presentation will detail my grid design process. Throughout the presentation, I'll cover:

  • The typographic grid: its history, usage and application on the web
  • Different types of grid: modular, columnar, hierarchical, rational, irrational,
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