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Learn about the importance of using grids in design while you work on fine tuning your wireframe with align properties and guides.
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In this section, we are going
to begin building our wireframe.
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A wireframe is a simple sketch.
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It is about placement and
the arrangement of elements.
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It will help us quickly iterate different
possibilities when planning a site's
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structure and functionality.
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We'll be creating two wireframes,
both a mobile and web version,
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to give our clients a basic idea of
what their finished site will look like.
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In this section, you'll plan the layout
and arrangement of the key page elements.
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Good systems are the basis and
starting point for almost any design.
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Using this structure will help us to
organize and communicate more clearly.
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To create a grid, you need to
first be able to create guides.
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To do this,
let's first turn on our rulers.
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We will go to View > Rulers, and
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we have hide rulers and show rulers.
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You can see that my rulers
are being shown right now.
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So if I do Cmd + R, that hides them.
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CMD + R brings them back.
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Rulers act like rulers
do in the real world.
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They help you to accurately place and
measure objects.
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They're also how you're going
to create ruler guides.
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So, to create a ruler guideline,
you go up to either your horizontal or
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vertical ruler bar and
you click on the ruler.
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Hold and drag out and
while you're still pressing
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on your mouse you can see that it's
creating a preview of your guide,
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and wherever you would like that guide
to be that's when you would release.
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And there it is.
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So if I wanna create more
horizontal guidelines,
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I just go up here, click and hold,
and drag, and there's another.
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If I would like vertical guidelines,
click and hold, and drag from here.
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And you can see right here,
this is a simple example of a grid system.
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Because we're using intersecting
guidelines to create in structure content.
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So that's exactly what that is.
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And remember,
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when we're using guides, guides do
not show up in your final design.
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They're really just there to help you
to align your text and graphic objects.
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If you would like to hide your guides,
you can go to View > Guides,
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and here we have Hide Guides, Lock Guides,
which are already locked now, and clear.
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So because we're not gonna be using these
particular guides, I'll go ahead and
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hit Clear and they will pop off.
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If you would like to just see a grid,
we can scroll down to View > Show Grid.
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And in some cases this might help
you if you just wanna base this
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while your working to line things up.
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Again, that would not show up on
your final, it's just for reference.
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And then last but not least,
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these really awesome things called
smart guides And they're different,
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because they're temporary snap to
guides that are going to appear
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only when you're creating and manipulating
objects, and then they go away.
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Versus the ruler guides I just showed you.
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Those are permanent,
unless you delete them, or clear them.
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To give you an example of
how smart guides work.
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I'm going to use this comp, and
I've created about three shapes.
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Go up to View, and
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make sure that your Smart Guides
are checked off here, or CMD+U.
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So in this case, mine are already active.
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So I'm not going to do anything,
and I'll just click off.
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If I click and hold these you can see
I have a lot of green lines appearing.
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This is all smart guide information
that's just temporary so it's telling
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me if I wanna line my object up here right
when I get to the edge of that rectangle,
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it highlights so I would know to let go.
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There's a nice sample.
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And not only is it giving us information
related to the other objects,
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it's also giving us information
related to the art board.
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So I can line up with the art board.
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Can also scale and
change the size of this and
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it's going to give me that information
immediately of my width and height.
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And we'll be using smart guides
throughout working on this project, so
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you'll see them quite a bit.
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If you would like to change your
preferences on smart guides,
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go up to Illustrator >
Preferences > Smart Guides.
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And here we have different options for
the information that you wanna have shown.
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So you can edit this at your will.
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I'm gonna leave it like this for
now and hit OK.
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Next, I'm going to be showing you
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how to create a different
type of guide using shapes.
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