The Heads-Up Grid. Responsive web design, as described/defined by Ethan Marcotte anyway, is the act of creating various forms of the same basic site design that are optimized for different ranges of browser window widths. Luckily, the way that I originally constructed the Heads-Up Grid made it relatively easy to adapt to the needs of responsive web design. You can quickly and easily define as many different grids as you need by way of basic JavaScript conditional statements. Even if you are not extremely comfortable with JavaScript, if you are ambitious enough to tackle responsive web design you will most likely have no problem figuring this out.
To create a responsive grid use the following code as a template. This template is fairly self-explanatory if you are familiar with CSS Media Queries. The result should be a system that checks the browser window width on pageload as well as any time that the browser window is resized and render the appropriate grid. 40 Useful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials. Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard when it comes to creating web page layouts. Photoshop’s versatility, robust set of tools, and excellent workflow management make it the web designer’s preferred application when creating designs for the web. In this collection, you’ll find 40 high-quality tutorials on creating web layouts from scratch using Photoshop. This article contains a copious variety of tutorials to help you learn and master the various techniques involved in creating beautiful web layouts. 1. Corporate WordPress Style Layout Create a dark, clean, and usable blog style layout. 2.
Learn how to create an elaborate and decorative design with paper textures. 3. In this tutorial, you’ll see how to make a clean/grungy layout. 4. This tutorial goes over how to create a dark-themed, classy web design. 5. Learn how to create a simple and modern web layout using Photoshop. 6. In this tutorial, you’ll read a detailed discussion on creating a grungy web design. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. The 960 Grid System Made Easy. By Joshua Johnson The first time I discovered the 960 Grid System, I was immediately excited about the possibilities of implementing complex layouts so easily. However, since I was fairly new to web design at the time, when I downloaded the files, I quickly became overwhelmed at how complicated the whole thing seemed.
With all this code, how could this be the easy way to create a layout? This article is for web designers and front-end web developers who are interested in grid-based layout systems but are at a loss on how to decipher them. We’ll focus specifically on the 960 Grid System, but after reading this guide, you’ll find that most of the other grid systems out there are similar and will make much more sense after you understand a few basic principles. Grid-Based Design Before we get into the specifics of the 960 Grid System, let’s briefly discuss grid-based design in general. Our brains like to simplify things to make them readily understandable. Why Do I Need a Grid System? Typogridphy. Tutorial: Coding a Layout. So, you’ve designed your next site but you’re having a little trouble turning your lovely PSD into a coded layout. This tutorial should help you learn how to analyze either a new template, or even your current layout to find the best way to code it.
(_Click image for a larger version_) Here is a basic design composition. The problem now becomes turning it into code while maintaining the style and structure that was decided upon as well as making sure that the site is accessible across browsers/platforms and is as light and elegant as possible. The first thing I do once I receive a finalized composition is attack it with a pencil. The full PNG of the layout above as well as the font used can be downloaded here (_Note: You can remove the red markings by making the “Code Overlay” layer invisible._) Now that we have a good idea of where we’re going, let’s get started. The first task is to set up your files; luckily, Dreamweaver takes care of that part for me. *Take a look at Step 1*