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Nathan Smith and Todd NienkerkDrupalCamp Dallas | August 2, 2009
Accelerated gridtheming using NineSixty
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Personal introductions
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Photo of Nathan: Travis Isaacs; Photo of Todd: Kristin Hillery
Todd NienkerkCo-founder, designer, and developerFour Kitchens
Drupal skill level: Expert(-ish)!
Nathan SmithDesigner and developerFellowship Technologies
Drupal skill level: N00b
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What is a grid system?
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Source: Grids are Good by Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton
History of the grid
‣ The practice of using a grid to guide design and page layout is nearly a century old
‣ In the 1910s and 1920s, ornamental design gave way to Rationalism and New Objectivity
‣ This shift in design was part of a much larger movement towards function over form
‣ Helvetica typeface and Bauhaus architecture
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Source: Grid (page layout) on Wikipedia
‣ After World War II, a number of graphic designers, influenced by the modernist ideas of Die neue Typographie (The New Typography), questioned the relevance of the conventional page layout of the time
‣ They devised a flexible system to help designers achieve coherency in organizing the page
Typographic grids
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Source: Grids are Good by Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton
Nearly a century ago
‣ Modernists looked to build a new aesthetic by...
‣ deriving beauty from the innate qualities of the machine
‣ championing standardization
‣ Sound familiar?
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Source: Grids are Good by Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton
Today
‣ Web designers have turned to grid-based design in order to...
‣ derive beauty from the innate qualities of the browser
‣ champion standardization
‣ 16 years after the invention of the web, we are finally embracing a century-old design philosophy
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1 Source: Software framework on Wikipedia
Grid systems on the web‣ On the web, grid systems usually take the form of
CSS frameworks
‣ A framework is a “reuseable abstraction of code wrapped in a well-defined API”1
‣ A collection of tools and shortcuts designed to minimize code and make your life easier
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Examples of frameworks
‣ Ruby on Rails is a well-known Ruby framework
‣ jQuery is a JavaScript framework
‣ Drupal itself can be considered a web application framework
‣ Includes many APIs for working with databases, fields, and web forms
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CSS frameworks
‣ Apply the principles of software frameworks to web design
‣ They provide standardized rules and shortcuts for:
‣ browser resets
‣ typography
‣ navigation
‣ print style
‣ and...
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Layout
‣ When applied to web design, grid systems are CSS frameworks that provides standardized rules and shortcuts for building a website’s layout
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JeffCroft.com | What’s not to love about CSS frameworks?
“I’m convinced that the people railing against CSS frameworks are just trying to drum up some false job security.”
—Jeff Croft, designer and author
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Why use a grid system?
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1) Saves time
2) Saves money
3) Reduces frustration
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Stop reinventing the wheel‣ Reduces the amount of CSS and markup you need
to duplicate each time you start a project
‣ No need to refer to old projects to figure out how to implement layouts
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Photo from Lernaean Hydra on Wikipedia
Multi-bodied hydra
‣ Many “dragons” share the same facade
‣ To render in a browser, all data has to pass through HTML
‣ .NET, ColdFusion, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
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Stop fixing and start designing‣ Shortens testing phases by providing built-in
support for noncompliant browsers
‣ Minimize Internet Explorer hacks in your layout
‣ A well-tested grid system will rarely be the source of your problems
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Photo: Aaron Schmidt on Flickr (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)
“Embrace constraints”
‣ All modern displays support at least 1024×768 resolution
‣ Despite the many advances in web technology, it’s alljust rectangles
— Mark Kraemer, National UX Practice Lead, EMC.com
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Stop deconstructing CSS
‣ Understanding someone else’s design is much easier when a standard grid system is used
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Photo: jontidmarsh on Flickr (Creative Commons BY-SA)
Enforcing a grid can accelerate design while maintaining order
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Think Vitamin | Web development is moving on — Are you?
“Our craft is becoming a commodity and the people in charge don’t care about the quality of the markup, CSS or how short our JavaScript is. What matters is how fast you can get it to market, how many people it reaches and how cheaply it can be built.”
—Christian Heilmann, Standards evangelist at Yahoo
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How do grid systems work?
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Example based on 960.gs (12-column)
Columns
‣ Grid systems are built using columns
‣ Columns are a grid system’s smallest unit of measurement
‣ Most grid systems contain 12–16 columns
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Example based on 960.gs (12-column)
Column width
‣ Page regions (header, content, sidebars, etc.) are defined by column width
‣ As in: “The header is eight columns wide”
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Example based on 960.gs (12-column)
Gutters (margins)
‣ Margins or padding are used to create gutters between columns
‣ These gutters provide margins between page regions
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Lean and versatile CSS
‣ A grid system’s CSS should:
‣ Be lean and efficient
‣ Be versatile and reusable
‣ Ensure consistent behavior across all common browsers — even IE6
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Wrapping <div> elements‣ In fixed-width grid systems, the entire layout is
wrapped inside a single <div> element
‣ <div> elements wrap the page regions and define their widths according to the number of columns they span
‣ These <div> elements may be nested to create regions within regions
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Example based on 960.gs (12-column)
Floating <div> elements
‣ The wrapping <div> elements are assigned a column width using a CSS class
‣ Because these classes also float the elements, they simply fall into place on the page
class: grid-12
class: grid-8
class:grid-4
class:grid-4
class:grid-4
class: grid-6 class: grid-6
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What can grid systems look like?Examples of grid-based layouts
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Example based on 960.gs (12-column)
Layout A: Content left, sidebar right
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Example based on 960.gs (12-column)
Layout B: Content between sidebars
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Example based on 960.gs (12-column)
Layout C: Content right with two left sidebars
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Painting by Piet Mondriaan (later Mondrian)
Layout E: The Mondriaan
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How 960.gs works
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Source: 960.gs
What is 960.gs?
‣ 960.gs — also known as the 960 Grid System — was created by Nathan Smith in order to “streamline web development workflow”
‣ It’s both a prototyping and development framework
‣ “The premise of the system is ideally suited to rapid prototyping, but it would work equally well when integrated into a production environment.”
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Subtraction.com | Grid Computing… and Design
Inspiration: Khoi Vinh
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Cameron Moll | Gridding the 960
Inspiration: Cameron Moll
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Adaptive Path | Sketchboards: Discover Better + Faster UX Solutions
Inspiration: Brandon Schauer
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Source: 960.gs
‣ Download it for free at http://960.gs
‣ GPL and MIT licensed
‣ The 960.gs download includes:
‣ Printable sketch sheets for doodling
‣ Design templates for all most applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, Inkscape, OmniGraffle, etc.
What’s in it
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Source: 960.gs
Technical specs
‣ 960px wide with a 940px usable area
‣ Two versions: 12- and 16-column
‣ These can be implemented separately or simultaneously
‣ Each column has a 10px margin on the left and right, which creates a 20px gutter between columns
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Source: 960.gs
12-column versionColumns are 60px wide Gutters are 20px wide
10px margin on the left and right prevents collision with browser chrome
Available working area is 940px wide
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Source: 960.gs
16-column versionColumns are 40px wide
Everything else remains the same
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Halves
Quarters
Using both versions simultaneously ‣ 12- and 16-column layouts can be used on the
same page
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‣ This flexibility allows designers to work with both 60px- and 40px-wide columns
‣ If 12 or 16 columns don’t suit you, 960 is also divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 24, 30, 32, 40, 48, 60, 64, 80, 96, 120, 160, 192, 240, 320 and 480
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CSS and markupNote: 960.gs uses underscores in its CSS class names. To avoid confusion, the examples that follow will use hyphens instead, as this is The Drupal Way.
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Containers
‣ Grids must be wrapped in a container <div>
‣ Containers center the content and define which version of the grid will be implemented
.container-12,
.container-16 { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 960px;}
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Grids
‣ Grids are held inside containers and are floated left so they fall into place automatically
‣ They also provide 10px margins on the left and right
.grid-1,
.grid-2,
.grid-3, ....grid-16 { display: inline; float: left; position: relative; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;}
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Grid widths
‣ The width of each grid is determined by the container that wraps it
‣ For example, a one-column grid is either 60px or 40px depending on whether it’s a 12- or 16-column layout
.container-12 .grid-1 { width: 60px;}
.container-16 .grid-1 { width: 40px;}
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‣ Note that grid width does not increase by 60px or 40px each time
‣ Each increase must account for the 20px gutter between grids
.container-12 .grid-1 { width: 60px;}
.container-12 .grid-2 { width: 140px;}
.container-12 .grid-3 { width: 300px;}
.container-16 .grid-1 { width: 40px;}
.container-16 .grid-2 { width: 100px;}
.container-16 .grid-3 { width: 160px;}
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Putting containers and grids together
.grid-3 .grid-6 .grid-3
.container-12
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Prefixes and suffixes
‣ If you want to leave space between columns, use a prefix or suffix class
‣ Prefix classes add padding to the left of a column
‣ Suffix classes add padding to the right
.container-12 .prefix-1 { padding-left: 80px;}
.container-12 .suffix-1 { padding-right: 80px;}
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Adding a prefix and suffix
.grid-3.grid-4
.prefix-1
.suffix-1.grid-3
.container-12
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Multiple rows
.grid-3.grid-4
.prefix-1
.suffix-1.grid-3
.container-12
.grid-12
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Multiple rows: markup<div class="container-12">
<!-- row 1 --><div class="grid-12">
This grid occupies the full width</div>
<!-- row 2 --><div class="grid-3">
One wide</div><div class="grid-4 prefix-1 suffix-1">
Four wide with a prefix and suffix of one each</div><div class="grid-3">
One wide</div>
</div> <!-- /container -->
No need to put each row in its own
wrapping <div>
The container <div> defines the layout
version in use
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Stack content vertically with nested grids
.grid-3.grid-6
.grid-3
.container-12
.grid-6
.grid-6
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‣ Here’s the catch: Because each grid includes a 10px left and right margin, nesting grids can break your layout
.grid-3.grid-6
.grid-3
.container-12
.grid-6
.grid-6
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Alpha and omega fix broken nesting‣ When nesting grids, use the alpha and omega
classes to remove the margins
‣ alpha removes the left margin. It’s the first nested grid.
‣ omega removes the right margin. It’s the last nested grid.
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.grid-3
.grid-3.alpha
.grid-3
.container-12
.grid-6.alpha .omega
.grid-3.omega
.grid-6
.alpha removed the left margin
.omega removed the right margin
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Onehub.com | Why We Chose 960.gs for Our CSS Framework
“In the time you could argue the relevance of naming conventions like these, I just built a 16 column layout.”
—Matthew Anderson, designer at OneHub.com
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Additional resources
‣ 960 Gridder and bookmarklet
‣ Variable grid system generator
‣ Other grid systems based on 960.gs
‣ Fluid 960.gs
‣ Typogridphy: Typographical and grid layout CSS framework
‣ and...
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The NineSixty themehttp://drupal.org/project/ninesixty
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Source: Drupal.org
About NineSixty
‣ NineSixty is the Drupal port of 960.gs
‣ Developed by Joon Park, aka dvessel on Drupal.org
‣ Intended to be used as a base theme
‣ Currently a candidate for Drupal 7 core
‣ Follow the debate on groups.drupal.org
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NineSixty’s improvements
‣ Content-first layout using “push” and “pull” classes
‣ These classes have been added back to 960.gs
‣ Dynamic grid widths based on context
‣ Debugging tools and grid visualization
‣ Right-to-left (RTL) language support
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Content-first layout
‣ A design convention in which the content is output as close to the top of the markup as possible
‣ Content should be output before all sidebars
‣ Some designers believe it should be output before a site’s main navigation
‣ This can be very difficult to achieve on a site with one or more left columns
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Push and pull classes
‣ Content-first layout can be achieved in NineSixty by “pushing” the content grid to the right while “pulling” a sidebar to the left
‣ These classes use the same naming convention as .grid-X, .prefix-X, and .suffix-X, where X is the grid’s width:
‣ .push-X and .pull-X
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Source: NineSixty’s README.txt
‣ Push and pull values should match the grid value of the opposite grid
<div class="container-12"> <div id="content" class="grid-6 push-3"> Content </div>
<div id="sidebar-left" class="grid-3 pull-6"> Sidebar: Left </div>
<div id="sidebar-right" class="grid-3"> Sidebar: Right </div></div>
Match numbers to swap locations
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.container-12
.grid-3.grid-6 .grid-3
<div class="container-12"> <div id="content" class="grid-6"> Content </div> <div id="sidebar-left" class="grid-3"> Sidebar: Left </div> <div id="sidebar-right" class="grid-3"> Sidebar: Right </div></div>
Before adding push and pull
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<div class="container-12"> <div id="content" class="grid-6 push-3"> Content </div> <div id="sidebar-left" class="grid-3 pull-6"> Sidebar: Left </div> <div id="sidebar-right" class="grid-3"> Sidebar: Right </div></div>
After adding push and pull
.container-12
.grid-3
.pull-6.grid-6.push-3 .grid-3
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Dynamic grid widths
‣ In some cases, you may want grids to resize themselves when a region isn’t populated
‣ For example, a 3-6-3 layout should become 3-9 if the right column is empty
‣ Dynamic width assignment is handled using the ns() function
‣ Defined in template.php
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‣ X, Y, and Z are all width values
‣ class can be grid, prefix, suffix, push, or pull
‣ $region can be any theme region
‣ Use as many pairs as you like
Structure of ns()
ns('class-X', $region, Y, $region, Z, ...)
Default value
These “pairs” subtract from the
default value
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Source: NineSixty’s page.tpl.php
Implementing ns()
<div id="main" class="column <?php print ns('grid-16', $left, 4, $right, 3) . ' ' . ns('push-4', !$left, 4); ?>"> <?php print $content; ?></div>
<?php if ($left): ?> <div id="sidebar-left" class="column sidebar region grid-4 <?php print ns('pull-12', $right, 3); ?>"> <?php print $left; ?> </div><?php endif; ?>
<?php if ($right): ?> <div id="sidebar-right" class="column sidebar region grid-3"> <?php print $right; ?> </div><?php endif; ?>
From page.tpl.php:
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Source: NineSixty’s page.tpl.php
<?php print ns('grid-16', $left, 4, $right, 3). ' ' . ns('push-4', !$left, 4); ?>
From #main:
ns('grid-16', $left, 4, $right, 3)
ns('push-4', !$left, 4)
Default width
If left sidebar is present, subtract 4 from default width.
If right sidebar is present, subtract 3 from default width.
If left sidebar is not present, subtract 4 from the push value. This will result
in no push, as 4-4 = 0Default
push value
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Source: NineSixty’s page.tpl.php
<?php php print ns('pull-12', $right, 3); ?>
From #sidebar-left:
ns('pull-12', $right, 3)
Default pull value
If right sidebar is present, subtract 3
from default pull value
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NineSixty in action
‣ Visit http://ninesixty.fkdemos.com to see how NineSixty...
‣ uses push and pull classes to generate content-first layout
‣ dynamically assigns grid widths based on context
‣ can be used to create different layouts
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‣ Split 12- and 16-column CSS into separate files
‣ Slimmer CSS and faster page loads
‣ Add vertical rhythm
‣ Standardized, more professional typesetting
‣ See A List Apart’s “Setting type on the web”
Planned improvements to NineSixty
Source: Joon Park's Twitter feed (@dvessel)
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Implementing a grid-based layoutUsing NineSixty to build your site
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When not to use a grid
‣ Implementing a grid will probably be impossible if your site’s layout...
‣ uses irregular column sizes
‣ has irregular margins or gutters
‣ has a width that isn’t divisible by a sane number
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‣ Implementing a grid will be difficult — but not impossible — if your site’s layout...
‣ has gutter widths of odd numbers
‣ is fluid
‣ wasn’t designed on a grid
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Getting started
‣ Do not change the NineSixty theme on your site!
‣ Hacking NineSixty is like hacking core: It will make upgrading your site very difficult
‣ Instead, subtheme NineSixty or create a totally new theme based on NineSixty
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Subtheme
‣ This method is best if your site is (or can be) 960px wide and can utilize 12 or 16 columns
‣ Subtheming instructions and resources on Drupal.org:
‣ Subtheming quick and dirty
‣ Sub-themes, their structure and inheritance
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Build a new theme
‣ You should build a new theme when your site’s layout...
‣ isn’t 960px wide
‣ doesn’t use 12 or 16 columns
‣ It’s more efficient to use a new theme than to override virtually all of NineSixty’s CSS
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Image source: Client project
Do the math
‣ Be prepared to crunch numbers
‣ Building a new theme can be very confusing
‣ Spreadsheets can help you visualize column, margins, and gutters
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‣ Examples (remember that the true “canvas” size of 960.gs is actually 940px):
‣ (940 - ((12 - 1) x 20)) ÷ 12 = 60
‣ (940 - ((16 - 1) x 20)) ÷ 16 = 40
Source: Grids are Good by Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton
The grid equation
(Canvas - ((Total units - 1) x Gutter)) ÷ Total units = Unit
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960.gs as a development and prototyping system
Examples
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Convertbot: 16 columns
tapbots.com/convertbot
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Pepsi comp: 16 columns
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Credits
AAFES comp: 12 columns
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Drupal.org redesign: 12 columns
infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/prototype.html
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Four Kitchens’ company website
Case study
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Source: fourkitchens.com
‣ Subtheme of NineSixty
‣ 12-column version
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Source: fourkitchens.com/blog
Right columngrid-3
Header promosgrid-4
Content columngrid-8 Gutter
grid-1
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Source: fourkitchens.com
Right columngrid-3
Content columngrid-8
Guttergrid-1
Footer columnsgrid-3
Sub-footer right column
grid-3
Sub-footer content column
grid-8
Guttergrid-1
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Appendix
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Learn more about grids
‣ The Grid System
‣ “The ultimate resource in grid systems”
‣ The Grid System’s Flickr pool
‣ My bookmarks tagged “gridsystems”
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Downloads
‣ 960 grid system: 960.gs
‣ NineSixty theme for Drupal: drupal.org/project/ninesixty
‣ This and other presentations are available for download at fourkitchens.com/presentations
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Contact Todd
‣ Email: [email protected]
‣ also works for Google Chat and AIM
‣ Skype: toddatfk
‣ Twitter: twitter.com/toddross
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Credits‣ “History of the grid” slides were
borrowed heavily from Khoi Vinh and Mark Boulton’s presentation Grids are Good and from Wikipedia
‣ Piet Mondriaan painting was found somewhere online. Copyright holder is unknown
‣ The items listed above are exempt from this presentation’s Creative Commons license
‣ This presentation was created and delivered by Nathan Smith of Fellowship Tech and Todd Ross Nienkerk, co-founder of Four Kitchens
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All content in this presentation, except where noted otherwise, is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licensed and copyright 2009 Four Kitchen Studios, LLC.