Let’s say you need to take a screenshot of a website for your portfolio. A common task, right? If you are on a PC, simply print screen, paste in Photoshop, and away you go. On the Mac, use some unintuitive key combination, open in Photoshop, and wait! The color is different.
I recently read a nice little guide called “Twenty-two tips on typography…”
A while back I started investigating grids—what they were, and how they could help my design. As a web designer, I never thought much about grids. It seemed to be some esoteric thing print designers used. Back in the table-based layout days, I probably used grids without even knowing it. Table columns and rows naturally structured the layout, the cellspacing attribute acted as a gutter between rows and columns, and cellpadding added a bit of buffer for the text. Of course, I normally set both to zero for pixel-precise layouts. I’m glad I don’t work that way anymore…