The concept of grid-by-design has become very popular in web design but it isn’t new in any way. In fact the bees, the bridge builders, chess masters etc. have known the secret of the grid for centuries. Using grids in web design makes the website look well structured and balanced even if the pages are busy with many elements. Also for the developer grids are useful and helps maintaining the pages easier. Grid in web design is basically a style in which a website is divided into different grids i.e. vertical and horizontal lines so that you can position different design elements efficiently and effortlessly. There are several CSS grid layout frameworks and solutions you can use to build your own grid based websites, but you will probably need the inspirational collection below. WordPress Magazine themes also typically have been designed using grids to make it possible to have the many content areas in the layout. In this article I have collected 40 examples of websites that use some form of grid styled layout.
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1. It’s Nice That Shop
2. Superawesome
3. Designunit
4. Ourhype
5. House of Burvo
6. Chambers Judd
7. Tastespotting
8. Sylvain Toulouse
9. Sunil Kansara
10. avec1y
11. Mark Boulton design
12. Kyle Tezak
13. Jesus Rodriguez Velasco
14. The morning news
15. Ungarbage
16. Hatbox
17. I am Shimone
18. Teachinghistory
19. Macalicious
20. Shape creative and digital studio
21. 31Three
22. Rita
23. Bisgrafic
24. UX Magazine
25. Velhetica
26. Best awards
27. Cool and the guide
28. Quipsologies
29. Moodyguy
30. Jake Przespo
31. Andy Rutledge
32. Thought and Theory – Collection
33. Tokyo Illustrator’s Society
34. Barnbrook Film
35. Grandpeople
36. Oi Polloi
37. Malika Favre
38. Quaker ninja
39. Progress Packaging
40. MCQ
41. Black Box Press
42. notcot
References:
2. Developing the grid that supports your design
3. Designing with grid-based approach
4. 45+ CSS Grid Systems, Layout Generators and Tutorials that every Designer should know
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Ladies and gentleman I present to you my grid style. For me it was the only choice for what my website was all about. The traditional blog format is so clichéd that I hated it.
I like number 16 – Hatbox. I don’t know why, but it appeals to me. I think it’s because the grid-design makes it easy to read, but then again it’s designed so you barely notice the grid. Good job! I like the site. Grid-designs are hard to get to work, but most of these sites have done it with success.
Thanks for liking one that is featured zeth, and yes i agree grid-designs are hard.
No problem. That design gave me some ideas how to use the grid, so no… Thank you
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Brilliant stuff, Love grid style!
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