Why Use a Grid to Design Your Page?

Both interior designers and print designers use grids while working. If you use a grid to design your Web page layout, you'll create designs that look right and feel comfortable to most people.
The problem is, most beginning designers feel that designing on a grid is boring. And it definitely can be. This is especially true if you use the grid as a mandate to fill in every square of the grid with some information. The point of a grid is not as a way to fill up space, but to help you organize the space you have.
Here are two main steps to using grids in your layout:
    •Create the grid, with as many sub-divisions as you need, and then don't add random lines to your grid. The benefit to a grid is the uniformity of it.
    •Place your elements on the grid lines, and make sure they fit the width and height of your grid lines.