35 Awesome Fluid and Elastic Layout Examples, Templates and Tutorials
Fluid and elastic layouts are extremely useful for creating websites that function perfectly on a wide variety of screen resolutions. However, they can be a bit tricky to wrap your mind around when you’re just starting out.
To aid you in your quest to understand these tools, we’ve rounded up as many examples, templates, tutorials, and frameworks as we could find. Whether you’re a fluid layout pro looking for some fresh design ideas or a complete novice that doesn’t know where to begin, there’s something here for you!
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Live Examples
Use these actual websites as inspiration for creative ways to structure your fluid layouts.
Web Design Cornwall
Clearleft
jek2kdotcom
Mirella Furlan
La Cantina Italian & New Zealand Wines Shop
Minimalist Design Magazine
SOFA – Design, Interfaces & Software
Andrea Gandino
Freelenz
NO-FUN.COM
GNV & Partners
Stuff and Nonsense
Michael Paul Young
shockEnterprise
Tutorials
If you need some help getting started, check out the tutorials below to learn all about creating fluid layouts from scratch.
24 ways: Intricate Fluid Layouts in Three Easy Steps
Liquid layouts the easy way | Max Design
Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? – Smashing Magazine
G146: Using liquid layout | Techniques for WCAG 2.0
The Perfect Fluid Width Layout | CSS-Tricks
A List Apart: Articles: Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins
CSS Semi-liquid Layout – CSS Liquid Columns – CSS Liquid Layout Designs Tips
Peachpit: Using the Liquid CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS4 > Simplifying the CSS Selectors
CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic. – Beast-Blog.com
Templates
These templates and layouts should provide an awesome starting point for you to build on.
Dynamic Drive CSS Layouts- Liquid Layouts
Fluid (Page 1 of 2) : Free Layouts : Free Layouts World
Liquid Layout Templates
CSS layouts | Max Design
The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible.
CSSeasy.com – Learn CSS the modern way
CSS Layout: A collection of 224 Grid and CSS Layouts
Frameworks
The right framework can make creating even the most complicated layout a breeze. Check out each of the frameworks below to see which you like best!
Fluid Grid System
Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid
Create layouts without limitations | Fluidgrid | A CSS based fluid grid system
FluidGrids – A CSS Framework for Rapid Interactive Prototyping
Tiny Fluid Grid
Conclusion
I hope the resources above are enough to have you dishing out your own beautiful fluid and elastic layouts in no time. Leave a comment below and let us know which resources you found to be the most helpful.
Also be sure to point out any that we missed!
very good list to get new ideas from these layouts, thank
Thanks for this solid list of examples and tutorials.
thanks buddy, alot of stuff about layouts, will be very useful
this is one of the most useful article for web designers.. thanks!
some great stuff there thanks
You can have a look as well at Flexi CSS Layouts – a Dreamweaver Extension that help you create Css layouts in Dreamweaver without coding.
Great list. Some really beautiful examples of websites here. I would like to suggest adding to the list my simple but powerful flexible CSS Grid system – NegativeGrid. You might find it surprisingly good.