Well i can see that hardly non of the people here are designers. Thats why you don’t like grids…
I have been working with indesign (layout) for magazines, books etc and most of the time i use grids. Why?
Because it’s so much easier to layout the page and it looks much better.
I not going to guess what kind of with that will look good for a design i know what looks good.
Well i can see that hardly non of the people here are designers. Thats why you don’t like grids…
Right, anyone who doesn’t share your personal opinion clearly can’t design, and probably also smell bad.
I not going to guess what kind of with that will look good
If you have to guess at code that’s not our problem, it’s yours. Learn to write it like a coder and this problem will go away.
Well i dont code in photoshop, and i do my design in photoshop so i know how the site looks. I rather do the design…
Someone wrote that it’s better to have one column… How do they know how large the text area should be?
They just come up with a number that looks good or?
Well i know the exact number of letter per line thats good for a reader. I also know the size of the letters thats good…
Thats why all visual communication designers use some sorts of guides to create a better design
In a fixed world, perhaps. But in the “web world” where everyone runs at a different resolution, with different screen sizes, those numbers are bupkiss. A good guideline in a perfect world, but the reality is much different.
How do they know how large the text area should be?
On the web, the TEXT decides that, actually. In print, you’re right, you would set that number in your visual design, and you CAN in print because you-the-designer are setting the font family, font-size, line-height and even wrapping around something like an image.
On the web, you can’t say the text will always be Arial, 12 pixels tall, etc. Many of us can’t read 12px Arial, and my operating system doesn’t even come with Arial (it belongs to Microsoft). My system settings will make your “12px” render like 18px (ish).
Similar with columns, some people might be viewing your web site on a wide-screen television hanging a few meters from them on the wall, using their Wii to view the page, and one column might not be better than maybe 2 or 3 there. Another person might be viewing that very same website on a Blackberry. One column is the smart choice there.
A design in Photoshop or InDesign or whatever will not show those possibilities, they will not show what that text looks like on my system with much larger fonts, unless you want to make several designs per single page (a lot of work, honestly, even if you did properly separate everything into layers).
More and more, web page design is better done with a barebones HTML/CSS combination, using a real browser as the canvas… and the image editors are best left for making the actual images that will be on the page, rather than the containers and other boxes.
I have been working with indesign (layout) for magazines, books etc and most of the time i use grids.
I was re-reading this today and now I wonder if you are talking about the grids used in InDesign rather than CSS grid frameworks? The thread was more about the CSS grids (well, and the main topic was something that’s apparently not really a grid system), not whether or not it is a good idea to use grids or gridlines as guides in an image editing program.