Some valid benchmarks: Blueprint Liquid <-> Fluid Grid System

Hi there, and firstly, thanks for a GREAT start on this! I've been using a 960px grid for a lot of my sites but I really love the option to keep fluidity while still maintaining a grid. I ran across the fluidgrid concept and immediately thought, "how great would that be for my Drupal work?" I thought about starting down the road myself, but a quick search brought me to your project, and you've already done way more than I could. So thanks. I'll be keeping an eager eye on it.

A couple thoughts to share at this point...

One, a vote for almost-semantic sidebar names - rather than left and right, maybe go with "one" and "two" or something more flexible? I know truly semantic names would describe function more accurately, but something more flexible than left and right might be helpful for those times when we want two sidebars on the right or what-have-you.

(As a bonus, it might also help us break out of that stereotypical drupal 3-column look by not suggesting left and right sidebars...)

Two, have you any thought of developing a region system such as Acquia Marina's, where multiple regions are available as needed, and scale well horiztontally when not all are used? (ie. something like 4 across the page between header and content, and 4 more between content and footer, but still spanning the full width if only 2 are used - 50% each...) I see more and more sites using these, and having them built in to the theme would be a huge timesaver.

Or maybe a simpler way is to have some regions defined in the .info and .css files and then let the themer specify widths based on the grid. (ie. 4x span-4 regions in a 16-col grid , or 1x span-8 then 2x span-4, etc.). I confess I don't know if and/or how this would work with what you've built to switch the # of columns in the theme settings. But I'm supposing that if you'd fix the max # of regions (maybe at 4?) no matter how many columns, it could work without being too complicated.

But that's just my own supposition and possibly my lack of theming knowledge showing...

Three, I notice that the Admin Menu (the black bar one absolutely positioned at the top of the page) exhibits an odd behavior with this theme. The whole page is pushed down the height of the menu, but then the menu covers the first 1.4em of the container, rather than being placed in the space it's supposed to occupy. (screenshot attached)

It seems to be particular to fluidgrid, since switching the theme to a default one puts the menu back in its proper place. I'm sorry I don't have more info to help at this point - haven't had time to try to hunt down the problem. But I will if I get a chance in the next few days.

Thanks again for taking this on - I have the feeling it's going to become one of my core starting points for theming!

Michael.