Sketching websites

A group activity to help understand page layout with modular CSS by sketching the pieces on paper.

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Sketching websites

Set up

  1. Form into pairs
  2. Download the files
  3. Prepare to draw on the document

Determine semantics, grids & type classes

  1. Draw boxes to represent the different HTML elements
  2. Assign each box a semantically correct tag
  3. Draw lines to represent the grid rows & units
  4. Write the unit widths
  5. Write out the possible classes from the type system: like island, gutter, pad, push, etc.
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Sketching websites

A group activity to help understand page layout with modular CSS by sketching the pieces on paper.