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Have I ever mentioned how much I love a challenge? I love to play with CSS. Anyway, there was a question on one of my email lists the other day, and I was sure I could accomplish it. Basically, someone wanted a site layout where it was your basic 3-column thing. Content in the center and two sidebars flanking it. Simple enough. But the trick was – they wanted...

So, I’ve been trying for a while to figure out the whole “Holy Grail” (as it’s been called) of layouts: the 3 column layout with header and “sticky footer” that works cross-browser. A List Apart has one, but it relies on having a huge bottom padding, and then reversing that with a huge negative margin. Me, I’m chick who likes to use negative margins as sparingly as possible – meaning only when...

So I’m back from my little hiatus (I’m sure you missed me! hahaha), and had a new challenge posed to me. Image swaps are cool for rollover effects, but what about disjointed rollovers? Can they be accomplished with no javascript? I’m here to tell you “hell, yeah!” And I will also show you

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,...