Mon 15 Dec
2008

Grid Buildrr

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Designer Tom Genoni offers up a quick tool for creating layout grids, with fine-tuned control over gutters and margins, and drag-and-drop placeholders for advertising units. Not the first of its kind, but slightly more robust than others. A great start.

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Thu 18 Dec 2008 at 08:45 am
Peter

So what do I do with the grid when I’m done? I can’t seem to save it or view the CSS or anything, even the link I sent via email just presented me with the blank starting point when I clicked it again.

Sun 21 Dec 2008 at 04:50 pm
Geoffrey Grosenbach

I wondered the same thing. It appears to be a visual inspiration tool only. You need to construct the CSS manually.

Tue 23 Dec 2008 at 11:45 am
Gene

I’m still waiting for the magnetized grid tool for the fridge (sort of like that ‘form a sentence’ thing). Maybe even incorporate IAB standard ad sizes too into the set of magnets?

Mon 29 Dec 2008 at 04:07 am
Marco

I don’t understand why it’s so hard to make a grid-building tool… This sort of thing has been around in graphic design since the days of QuarkXpress.

Tue 30 Dec 2008 at 09:52 pm
Steffan Williams

I recently made a grid layout generator: http://gridinator.com/

I wish I had seen this before I designed mine, since I may have tried to do something a bit different. Mine looks a bit too similar for my liking.

Anyhoo! Mine does generate CSS for you, which is nice!

More features will come (I hope), but I just wanted to get it out the door and see if anyone would find it useful.

Wed 31 Dec 2008 at 05:06 am
Marco

Hey, that looks very good! “all your grids are belong to us?” LOL! Bookmarked it!

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