November 2013 Xara Xone Tute: Page Design Part One

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We use a grid for laying out Good Morning Sunshine. Our layout is a standard US letter size page (8.5 by 11 in) double page spread. each page is laid out using a 3x3 grid we have no bleed but we do have a page margin, gutters and column breaks. (some of this Gary hasn't covered yet) We use the grid to layout our columns and align the ads. For the pages I have a template with guidelines set up, but often when doing the ads the grid is in my head

Here is a grid based layout I did this summer for one of our advertisers.