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 git@github.com: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.