I like the design of the site. And it's particularly impressive from someone who's only been at it for 8 months!
It can be done in CSS though, and without the need for lots of nested divs or hacks. You basically need to float the two main areas and use the footer to produce the bottom border of the main content area. ---------------- Patrick Griffiths (PTG) http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/ http://www.htmldog.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] CSS vs tables - the untitled posts > MessageAnd then the bloody this collapses erratically! I nearly went bald > trying to find a resolution to this. I spend a couple of solid days > examining options. Had a few CSS techies up for the challenge and we > couldn't get it to render properly. > > I've been with the negative flanking columns but it seemed that one > resolution clobbered another aspect. In truth, I should have documented the > working procedure but it got to the stage where you have literally dozens of > backups (and way to much espresso). > > I may revisit it again but I've had 3 shots at it with various guys > examining it. It's quite possible to achieve the 'cool' style but > implementing the other two proved a pig. If I dropped them, I could do it. > But that's again surrendering to limitations of pure CSS. > > However, I am open to options. I'm not a sparkling CSS developer and have > been in the game for only 8 months or so. There are far more knowledgeable > guys around. I'm just loath to go down the road of nested divs and fudges to > get something to work which can be achieved more practicably with a simple > framing table. > > Mike ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
