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Having recently become a convert to Grid Layouts, I find myself looking at more and more sites’ code and seeing that grids are still grossly under-represented.

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PixelGrid – X is a grid system build by Jens Törnell.

The concept is different from the other gridsystems since it uses a .box class to define your margin.

A PixelGrid – X generator is coming soon!

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CSS grid frameworks seem to have a pretty tarnished image as far as philosophical topics in front-end web development go. One quick search will reap a plethora of blog posts and articles on the topic.

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MyCSS grid system is a very simple CSS grid system that can be used for blogs and creative websites It also uses the best divine proportion in web design. The grid system is  created by Kailoon.

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Brilliant typographic templates, released for free download and personal and commerical use as the gift for the web design community.

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SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.

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Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing and presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience by creating predictable patterns for users to follow. From designer’s point of view they allow for an organized methodology for planning systematic layouts.

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The economy is bad. No one’s job is really 100% safe, so it’s time we all bucked up and got our recession bags packed (just in case!). Your portfolio is already gorgeous, but have you created a drool-worthy résume.

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Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type: some use images or sIFR to produce very beautiful typography, while others prefer CSS alone to get the typography just right.

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CSS-design is not easy. We need to find workaround across browser inconsistencies, not that easy CSS-concepts and quite counterintuitive CSS-solutions. However, there are effective and useful CSS-tools and Smashing Magazine reviewed many of them in our previous posts. Now it’s time to present you with some fresh (or not mentioned earlier) tools that can assist designers in their work.

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