erskinedesign / ed.gridpak

The responsive grid generator.

Gridpak

Version: 0.2.7b

The easy way to produce customisable Responsive layouts

The project is live at Gridpak.com

In your Gridpak you get

• A CSS file with your media queries, and grid points
• A LESS (.less) file that compiles down to CSS
• A SCSS (.scss) file that compiles down to CSS
• A JavaScript (.js) file that will overlay your grids at the touch of a button
• Some PNGs for your baseline backgrounds as well as for use in your designs

Usage instructions

Running Gridpak locally

Gridpak is a Django application with a frontend controlled mostly by Backbone.js.

We prefer to run our Django projects using virtualenv, and while we won't go into detail on installing it, (you're all clever people: surely you can find a tutorial that suits you) here's the basic rundown:

1. Create the directory to house Gridpak mkdir gridpak && cd gridpak
2. Clone this repo into your directory, careful to use the name gridpak, otherwise Django will throw a hissy fit git clone [email protected]:erskinedesign/ed.gridpak.git gridpak
3. Start a new virtual environment virtualenv --distribute env
4. Activate that virtual environment source env/bin/activate you should then see that you're in the env environent in your bash
5. Install all the requisit packages pip install -r gridpak/packages
6. Create a local_settings.py file (you can copy the local_settings.sample.txt and it should work fine)
7. Compile the LESS file so you don't get an error about not being able to find the layout stylesheets with less ./static/css/screen.less > ./static/css/screen.css
8. You should now be able to run the app cd gridpak && python manage.py runserver
9. Visit the url in your browser (http://localhost:8000 by default,) and you're away

Feedback

We'd love feedback on the project, which you can send by email to gridpak [at] erskinedesign.com, or from the issues on this GitHub project.

ed.gridpak's Issues

don't use min/max media queries all the time

When you specify both min/max, I have to specify classes for every scenario.
Note - that will require some modification for the name. (like xs, sm etc..)

Bootstrap for example will specify max for the first scenario ( 0 - max ), from then on only 'min'

so that if I like the setup I have for medium screens, I don't have to specify another for large.

I can currently achieve this by modifying the css you generate, but it would be awesome if I can define it all on the generator and have it prepared.

# of columns validation error message displays when it shouldn't

Hello. I noticed that the Must be between 1 and 99 cols message that appears when the columns are less than 1 or greater than 99 doesn't disappear until the number of columns is returned to 2 or 98 via the provided arrows, instead of 1 or 99. It's a small bug but a bug nonetheless.

Clicking breakpoint button doesnt work sometimes

Weird bug when clicking the breakpoint button. Only works when clicking the actual text.

(Chrome)

Permalinks to pre-filled generator in generated grid resources

It would be great if the generated resources (js, css, less, and scss) included permalinks to the Gridpak generator with all of the same settings that were used to generate that set of resources pre-filled. It would allow users to easily get the latest code when there are updates.

For inspiration, other generators such as Modernizr and ThemeRoller offer similar functionality.

Browser prefix issue in stylesheets

"moz" and "webit" prefixes don't have the hyphen prefix (-moz, -webkit).

compatibility IE8

Hi,

I just see that Gridpak isn't compatible with IE8 and I find a workaround.
In the .col mixin, you use "rgba(0,0,0,0)" and IE8 can't understand it, if you switch to "transparent" it will works like a charm :)

Regards,
Florian