- [Instructor] When you build a layout,
the first option you're likely to decide on
would be the live page area and the margins.
And once you've established that,
columns are a good way to divide up
the horizontal page area, and the number you choose
is entirely up to you, but I think six
gives you quite a bit of flexibility
and I'm a big fan of 12, which gives you even more.
Between each column, you'll have gutters
to give the flow a little room
and incidentally, the area between margins
on a spread that's two pages or two pages to view
as it's referred to, that's called the page gutter.
Once that's done, you're ready to start placing content,
and now hopefully you'll see why I'm such a big fan
of the 12-column layout, as it's equally divisible
by two, three, four, and six, and it gives you
a lot of options for placing content.
Here's an example of one of my workbook layouts
which uses the 12-column grid, and you'll notice
I've got an asymmetrical arrangement here
to accommodate a sidebar.
And finally, here's a poster built on the same layout.
If we lower the opacity, you'll see how the columns
assisted my positioning decisions.
The important thing to remember though,
is that these things are a guide
and you don't have to adhere to them strictly.