Article about Designing with grid-based approach

The following article is just what I needed!

I was discussing a few ideas that should help us move away from our usual approach of design for our websites, which is now becoming a bit … outdated:

(see www.unctad.org or www.unctadxi.org).

We’re building a new site for a Conference, and I wanted to have something more trendy or even sexy. I like this whole approach of using grid-based approach to find the right balance between the layout, the level importance of each element on the page and the general look and feel.

Smashing Magazine just published an article about this technique. I’m sure they’re not the first ones, but it happens that I bumped into this article a few hours after the discussion with my colleagues…