The benefits of using a grid are easy to see, but how do you build them? The divisions of unit, field, column, gutter, and row are based on something, but what? Where exactly does this something come from? That’s what Zell wanted to know when he asked similar questions in a comment a couple of weeks ago.
Print offers a ready made solution for the starting point in grid development; a fixed canvas. The web doesn’t provide that luxury. Mark Boulton proposed that we need to stop thinking about designing from the canvas in, and instead design from the content out. In other words we should look to something in our content as the starting point for constructing a grid.
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Print offers a ready made solution for the starting point in grid development; a fixed canvas. The web doesn’t provide that luxury. Mark Boulton proposed that we need to stop thinking about designing from the canvas in, and instead design from the content out. In other words we should look to something in our content as the starting point for constructing a grid.
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