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Grammarly | Browser not supported. Hidroponia.mx | Difundimos información sobre: Hidroponía, sustentabilidad, programas de gobierno, salud y ecología para generar conciencia y herramientas capaces de originar soluciones a la crisis alimenticia, activación del campo, economía familiar y pro. Fluid Grids. Early last year, I worked on the redesign of a rather content-heavy website. Design requirements were fairly light: the client asked us to keep the organization’s existing logo and to improve the dense typography and increase legibility.

So, early on in the design process, we spent a sizable amount of time planning a well-defined grid for a library of content modules. Article Continues Below Over the past few years, this sort of thinking has become more common. Thanks to the advocacy of Mark Boulton, Khoi Vinh, and others, we’ve seen a resurgence of interest in the typographic grid, and how to use it on the web. However, our client had one last, heart-stopping requirement: the design had to be fluid and resize with the browser window.

Minimum screen resolution: a little white lie#section1 Instead of exploring the benefits of flexible web design, we rely on a little white lie: “minimum screen resolution.” As it turns out, it’s simply a matter of context. With ems, it’s easily done. Letras Libres - Cultura, literatura, poesía, ensayo, política, crítica. iJourney: iJourney.org: An Inner Journey. Letebile's blog. Colossal | A blog about art and visual ingenuity. Beautiful Weather Graphs and Maps - WeatherSpark.

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