GoUpstate.com and a GridFox fix
A few weeks ago, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal launched a redesign of their site. It’s a clean design that makes great use of whitespace. Last night I received a note from the Online Director there with a little more information about the redesign. It was great to hear that he followed a 14-column grid for his new layout. It seems designing with grids is becoming a popular trend, especially in newspaper web design.
I decided to check the grid on their site with GridFox, my Firefox plugin which can overlay a grid on any website. And… it didn’t work. There was a bug which caused the grid to only cover the top 50px of the site, most likely having something to do with how the page had been coded. It was a simple fix and now GridFox should be compatible with even more sites. If you’re using GridFox, please take a second to download version 1.1. And if you have any other great examples of grid-based design you’d like to see featured on the GridFox page, feel free to leave a comment or email me.
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See one of the latest grid-based designs coming out of the NYTRMG.
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this is complicated.. this is the first time i heard about GridFox.. will have a try..
I love GridFox. Thanks! I’ve been trying to hammer our site into a decent design since I started working here, and GridFox is proving to be a great tool.
No mention of compatibility with Firefox 3, but I’ll give it a shot.
Me again. Only problem in FF3 seems to be that “Show Grid” doesn’t toggle correctly. I can’t turn it off.
er, um, never mind. Refresh removes it. Duh.
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