Five Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Grid Systems for Web Design, Part 2
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Boulton, Mark
Mark Boulton
2007

Abstract:

Fixed width grid design for the web. What is it, how do we do it and how do we implement it? For the purposes of this article, I'm going to be focussing on the theory of creating the grid rather than the implementation. I did mention in the last series that I would cover implementation using CSS, well I'm not going to. There are just so many resources and books available telling you how to create the CSS layouts you need—I'll touch on it, but I won't be going into too much detail.