…and now we come to what A List Apart calls “the Holy Grail” of layouts – the fluid 3-column layout. This is my version, brought upon by a request made on a message board for a 3-column layout where the designer could vertically center-align the sidebar content. Amazingly, I got it to work for her – but it didn’t work in anything but Firefox and IE6 (that’s all she was worried about, so I stopped...
read more ›Now, we come across a trick I ran into this morning. Someone had asked about a CSS-based rollover image swap for a site. You’ve seen these rollovers before – usually implementing javascript (I believe Dreamweaver even has this kind of function built in? I don’t know for sure – I don’t use it!) – usually for navigational purposes. Basically, the end user comes to the site, hovers over your link and the image swaps out...
read more ›The Two Column Layout is the most popular of layouts I’ve done in the past. This site is even done in the two-column layout – it seems to be the most popular for simple websites. One column – narrow in width, is usually reserved for the sidebar navigation, the secondary column is wider and handles the content of the pages. An example to view – aside from the page you’re looking at right now: Basic,...
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