{"id":12516,"date":"2007-10-09T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T12:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/10\/create-grids-easily-in-photoshop-fireworks.html"},"modified":"2007-10-09T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T12:44:50","slug":"create_grids_easily_in_photoshop_fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/create_grids_easily_in_photoshop_fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Create grids easily in Photoshop, Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grid-based Web design has gained currency as a best practice, as articulated by various experts.&#160; For example: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Mark Boulton talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markboulton.co.uk\/articles\/detail\/why_use_a_grid\/\">why to use a grid<\/a>, and he offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markboulton.co.uk\/articles\/detail\/five_simple_steps_to_designing_grid_systems\/\">Five Simple Steps to designing grid systems<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/archives\/2007\/0318_oh_yeeaahh.php\">shares his approach<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Mark &amp; Khoi elaborate on their techniques in the SXSW presentation &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/pics\/0703\/grids_are_good.pdf\">Grids Are Good<\/a>&#8221; (8MB PDF). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now Andrew Ingram has stepped up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewingram.net\/articles\/gridmaker_reboot\/\">GridMaker for Photoshop<\/a>, a script that enables easy creation of a grid comprised of Photoshop guides.&#160; He&#8217;s also created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewingram.net\/articles\/gridmaker_for_fireworks\/\">a version for Fireworks<\/a> using a Flash-based panel.&#160; Many thanks for your efforts here, Andrew. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere Matthew Pennell has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.29digital.net\/grid\/\">Web-hosted approach<\/a> to grid generation, complete with a nice set of draggable sliders.&#160; It would be cool to see someone combine these approaches, using a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/12\/flash_runs_insi.html\">Flash UI inside Photoshop<\/a> to drive the guide-creation script.  [Via my old roommate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrangible.com\">Khoi Uong<\/a>; doppel-Khoi powers, <i>activate!<\/i>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grid-based Web design has gained currency as a best practice, as articulated by various experts.&#160; For example: Mark Boulton talks about why to use a grid, and he offers Five Simple Steps to designing grid systems. NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh shares his approach. Mark &amp; Khoi elaborate on their techniques in the SXSW presentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}