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Hello everybody, My organization is new to style and bought several great books at usability (don’t help make me think), typo (Robin Williams books) including a book on grids of which had a SOME star rating on Amazon (can’t try to remember the title). What My organization is still struggling having is general layout and proportions. Especially the grid guide showed me good examples on how you can use grids to generate basic layouts but it failed to say easy methods to actually implement these folks (the nitty gritty stuff). One example is a simple internet banner. I have learned about dividing the screaming horizontally and vertically in 3 parts. I’ve played around keeping this but can’t really say that it helped me set up something balanced. Another example may be the 960 grid. I use Joomla including a template called Breeze that uses the actual 960 grid. I want to make standards for that content but I am struggling to find information on the way to calculate the horizontal values with the grid (the verticals will be given) and tips on how to apply these beliefs then. Perhaps there is any literature about that helps me get an idea … Continue reading →