Grids, along with visual hierarchy, typography, color theory, rhythm, etc., are the basic foundations of design and yet they are widely ignored by the industry.
Grids: An Invisible Foundation
What do houses and well designed pages have in common? They are both built on a framework — a carefully measured, solid structure that forms a foundation on which to build.
Blueprint CSS Framework
Blueprint is a CSS framework that gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Sarah France
Beautiful portfolio site by Sarah France with a well designed six column grid system.
The Grid: The Structure of Design
Using a grid is one of those basic design principles. A grid is made up of vertical and horizontal lines and is the foundation of nearly every type of visual media.
