COAP:COAP-3150 - week 4

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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.

• Grid Theory
• The Grid System

Tools

• 960 grid system - grid templates for Photoshop (among others) to place as layers.
• Modular grid app - CS5 plugin or web application and option to export result
• Fluid baseline grid - for designing fluid CSS-based grids
• LAYOUT & STYLEGUIDE TEMPLATES: YOUR NEW BFFs - Photoshop layout templates
• GuideGuide - panel plugin for Photoshop CS4+

Further reading

• Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts - Dev.Opera
• Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop
• Designing for the Web: Templates and Grid Systems: Design Festival

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

• wireframemockups.com - also produces code for creating working prototypes
• Gliffy, [1] - sketching online

Template and kits

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