Golden ratio

I keep bumping into overcomplicated instructions to construct a layout based on golden ratio (such as this one). Although most of it looks cool and somewhat esoteric, it’s too much to do on a daily basis.

I use two simple formulas:

For example say your website is 960px wide:

• 960px × 0.618 ~= 593px for content column
• 960px × 0.382 ~= 367px for side column