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I feel like I missed a memo or something. Are fluid layouts and grid layouts the same thing? What is this baseline thing I keep hearing about? Is the baseline just like something you create to line up all the words and pictures? How is that any different than just floating/clearing and using percentage widths?

Is this just revised terminology?

Parris
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fluid layouts and grid layouts are essentially css starting points - most css grids can be used with either fluid widths or fixed widths

boilerplate

960.gs

baseline css

are a few that I can think of - they're designed to help designers / developers to quickly and simply create consistant layouts

Brett Smith
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  • ah so a grid layout can be fluid or not. Is a grid layout just what we normally do when developing a page with divs and normal positioning? When are we not using a grid layout when we develop a web page? – Parris Jun 30 '12 at 18:32
  • effectively yes - the main purpose of grid layouts as I understand it is consistency and re-usability. yes grid layouts can be fluid http://grids.heroku.com can be used to generate fixed and fluid 960.gs grids - if you're looking into grids it's not a bad place to start – Brett Smith Jun 30 '12 at 22:38