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* [http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/09/establishing-your-grid-in-photoshop/ Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop]
* [http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/09/establishing-your-grid-in-photoshop/ Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop]
* [http://designfestival.com/designing-for-the-web-templates-and-grid-systems/ Designing for the Web: Templates and Grid Systems]: Design Festival  
* [http://designfestival.com/designing-for-the-web-templates-and-grid-systems/ Designing for the Web: Templates and Grid Systems]: Design Festival  
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==Wireframes and mockups==
Wireframes are sketches of web page layouts and interfaces. They can be made using a variety of tools, from pencil and paper to sophisticated software, to sketch out the organization of a web page and its features.
===Online tools===
* [http://wireframemockups.com wireframemockups.com] - also produces code for creating working [[Web prototyping software |prototypes]]
* [http://www.gliffy.com/ Gliffy], [http://creately.com] - sketching online
===Template and kits===
[http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/12/24/sketching-wireframing-kit.aspx Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit] to use with Illustrator or Photoshop or other vector-based drawing or image editing software.
See also
* [[Web wireframe]] article for more tools and software (some commercial)
* Further reading on [[Web_prototyping_software#Introductions_and_further_reading |web prototyping]]
==Site management with Dreamweaver (or [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/COAP:COAP-3150_-_week_4 Komposer])==
===File management===
Defining your file structure to separate form from content.
===Site setup===
*''local site'' - [http://www.adobe.com/designcenter-archive/dreamweaver/articles/drwcs3_definelocal_print.html from Adobe Help for CS3]
*''local test site'' vs ''remote live site'' - [http://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/judyrobinson/3260/dreamweaver_cs3.pdf Defining your site in Dreamweaver CS3]
===Tutorials===
*[http://oreilly.com/web-development/excerpts/0636920001393/introducing-site-management-ch16.html Introducing Site Management - Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual] from O'Reilly
*[https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/CISDOC/Dreamweaver+Site+Design+and+Management+Tutorial Dreamweaver Site Design and Management Tutorial] - Brown University wiki
* [http://www.adobe.com/designcenter-archive/tutorials/drw8at_configure/ Create and configure a Dreamweaver site] from the Adobe Design Center
* [http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver1.shtml Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS3]
===Readings===
Chapter 6 - Site management essentials, ''Artistic Web Design'' by Vickie Ellen Wolper.


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Layouts and grids

Grid systems and used to organize layouts in print and web pages. Grids are made of horizontal baseline grids and separations and vertical columns and spacing between columns and margins.

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