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Sketching grids, looking for ideas, here comes the kuniform redesign? Heck no, here’s a post about grid resources online. Khoi Vinh has some ideas ‘bout grids here and here. The second one is better, the misnamed “Grid computing and design.” He has the brilliant idea of using your grid as a background image for your pages while designing. I’ll be trying that out, certainly.

Mark Boulton has a 5 part series that is really informative. I can’t wait for his book to come out. I used this series in conjunction with Thinking with Type in teaching Web Design 2 at the Art Institute this fall. Cameron Moll has a follow on article entitled Gridding the 960 that sums up a lot of these approaches, and even references the Yahoo! User Interface Grid CSS Builder at Dav Glass’s site. If you check out Cameron’s article, be sure to check out Christopher Fahey’s bit of perspective in the comments.
For a prototype site I’m working on for a non-profit, I went the YUI Grid builder route. It went ok, but it’s a site I’m grinding out, so getting it out was as important as making it pretty. For my own site, I’m trying to do something a bit more compelling, as I’m tired of seeing the same column widths and alignments across a bunch of blogs. We’ll see if what I want to do is possible, I sure hope I can pull it off.