Some benefits according to Khoo Vinh:
"• Grids add order, continuity, and harmony to the presentation of
information on frequently high-density web pages.
• Grids help users predict where to find information from page to page
or from behavioral state to behavioral state, which aids in the communication
of that information.
• Grids make it easier to add new content to a website in a manner
consistent with the overall vision of the original website.
• Grids facilitate collaboration on the design of a single website
without compromising the overall vision of that website.”
It’s the last two that may give you an insight in why choosing a specific grid
could be very fruitful.
(Page 20 of ”Ordering Disorder, Grid Principles for Web Design” (Khoo Vinh 2010)
11 aug 2014 kl. 13:15 skrev Tim Dawson <[email protected]>:
> On 11/08/2014 11:12, MiB wrote:
>> aug 11 2014 11:04 Tim Dawson <[email protected]>:
>>> is it just the current buzz-word ?
>>
>> I don’t think so, no. To me that’s like saying ”design" is a buzz word.
>> Grids are everywhere
>> in any design profession. Look att architecture: Grids, Cars: Grids, Papers:
>> Grids. Grids are
>> pretty much ubiquitous.
> Your message crossed with a reply I'd just sent to your previous one.
>
> From the design point of view OF COURSE we have a grid.
>
> I'm not for one moment opposed to laying out web pages tidily. As I said
> before I've effectively used 'grids' for years without calling them such, in
> two three and four column layouts. I'm not suddenly proposing to make untidy
> web sites (I hope).
>
> I AM struggling with what I see in tutorials, all that prepared CSS for
> narrow columns (1/8, 1/12 and other fractions) that I can't see being of more
> than very occasional use except in multiples, which comes back to the 60/40
> (70/30 or whatever) columns of a typical two column layout etc. Particularly
> confusing are the rows with eight or twelve postage stamp sized boxes of no
> practical use at all.
>
> Is it all just to make the maths easier ? Grid based CSS seems to me to boil
> down to:
>
> "Making a load of 'column' class names for any multiple of one twelfth that I
> might reasonably want to use and putting them into 'rows' in various
> combinations each totalling 1."
>
> If it's significantly more than that I am seriously missing the entire point,
> and need help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
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