960 Grid System

mikefarrell:

Kevin Fales showed me this yesterday, pretty handy download I thought I would share: 

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem. Read more.

In researching this kind of stuff a few months ago I came across the 960 Grid as well as the Fluid 1140 CSS Grid. While it is easy to go overboard on a fluid layout, it is very appealing to have it adapt to a mobile user.

(Source: mikefarrell)