960 Grid System 2.0 (free extension)

With the 960 Grid System Dreamweaver Extension you can quick and easy add a 960 CSS Grid for most flexible web site design! Just add as many rows and cells as you need for your header, content, sidebars or footer. The extension gives you the tools to add new CSS Grid Cells, increase or decrease their size, split or join cells and much more with just a single action click. All the counting of grid cell sizes and placement, that is needed for the 960 Grid System is done automatically for you!

Also in Dreamweaver Design View there are special visual aid tools that show outlines for the grid and cells so you can see them during your web site design work in Dreamweaver.

This free extension is exclusively available for download on DMXzone's Facebook page so get it now!

Overview

Features Highlights:

• Add 960 Grid System - Use it to create a slick page layout in minutes
• Add Rows and Cells - Add as many as you need for your content, sidebar, header, footer etc.
• Manage the CSS Grid Cell Size - Increase of decrease, so it fits your design
• Great Preview in Dreamweaver - You can easily follow your Grid in the Design View
• Extended grid columns support - Next to the support for mixed 12 and 16 column grids, now the extension also supports standalone 12, 16 and even 24 column grids
• New and improved Dreamweaver Design View - Now the grid cells and containers are highlighted on hover and easily selectable by their new tab label (only DW CS3+). The tab label also contains the number of columns a cell or containers spans
  
• Full support for Right-to-Left Text alignment - Now available as option on the property inspector of any 960 Grid container

960 Grid system 2.0 New Features Overview
With this movie we will show you the new features included in our Free Dreamweaver 960 Grid System 2.0 extension.

Features

• Grid Cells Management
  
• Add Cell to Left -  will add a new grid cell on the left side of the current selected cell
  
• Add Cell to Right - will add a new grid cell on the right side of the current selected cell
  
• Merge with Right Cell - will merge the contents of the current grid cell with its right neighbor
  
•  Merge with Left Cell - will merge the contents of the current grid cell with its left neighbor
•  Delete Cell
  
  
• Grid Rows Management
  
•  Add New Row  - will add a new row under the current cell
  
  
• General Aligning and Selection functions
  
•  Spread Cells - will make all grid cells on the same row equal in size
  
•  Select Cell - selects the sells and opens the Property inspector
  
• Show Grid - shows the Grid cells for the page layout
  
  
• Property Inspector
• Expand to Left - will expand the width of the current grid cell getting the needed width from its left neighbor 
• Contact from Left -  will contract the width of the current grid cell and increase the width of its left neighbor 
•  Expand to Right - will expand the width of the current grid cell getting the needed width from its right neighbor
  
•  Contact from Right - will contract the width of the current grid cell and increase the width of its right neighbor
  
• Padding Before and After - increases/decreases the numbers of columns before/after the cell
  

Showcases

Videos

960 Grid system 2.0 New Features Overview
With this movie we will show you the new features included in our Free Dreamweaver 960 Grid System 2.0 extension.

 

Using Dreamweaver Repeating Regions in 960 Grid System Templates
With this movie we will show you how easy it is to use Dreaweaver Repeating Regions in Templates built with our free 960 Grid System extension

 

Creating a Basic Page Layout with 960 Grid
With this movie we will show you how to create a Basic Page Layout with 960 grid System using our free 960 Grid System extension

 

Requirements

History

Version 2.0.0

• Extended grid columns support! Next to the support for mixed 12 and 16 column grids, now the extension also supports standalone 12, 16 and even 24 column grids
• New and improved Dreamweaver Design View!  Now the grid cells and containers are highlighted on hover and easily selectable by their new tab label (only DW CS3+). The tab label also contains the number of columns a cell or containers spans
  
• Full support for Right-to-Left Text alignment. Now available as option on the property inspector of any 960 Grid container
  
• Improved CSS Reset file to meet the latest web standards
  
• Improved the default text CSS typography
  
• New Grid Cells are now inserted empty i.e. there is no default "cell content:" text in them
  
• Improved Property Inspector Icons
  
• Automatic update dependent files on page open
  
• Improved dependent file copy and include process

Version 1.0.2

• Improved design view display of the grid in older (pre CS5) Dreamweaver versions 
  

Version 1.0.1

• Improved working with dynamic pages and server behaviors in Dreamweaver 
• Improved compatibility when working with Dreamweaver templates
• Various optimizations