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Design

Mike Aquan-Assee
Mike Aquan-Assee
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Posted by Mike Aquan-Assee
Mike Aquan-Assee
15,336 Points

Using grids in web layouts

Are there standard grid dimensions used in web design, mobile and tablet layouts? If not how do you decide, what dimensions to use (# of columns, width, space between columns,etc.)?

1 Answer

Alex Flores
Alex Flores
7,864 Points
Alex Flores
Alex Flores
7,864 Points

I'm pretty new to this, but what I have been doing is going off of bootstrap grid layout. They pretty much lay it out for your depending on the viewport, which is a better way to decide on how to do your layout. You can also use Chrome's developer tool and you can check to see all the different dimensions used by various devices. You can also use flex-box, which is a really easy way of laying out responsive tables.

As far as standard dimensions. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems that media queries typically use the same screen sizes (480, 660, 980) and I can't help but there that there is a reason for this.

Hope this helped.