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Jello: A Different Liquid Layout

May 4th, 2005 45

Note: This page has nothing whatsoever to do with the gelatin dessert, Jell-O. It’s describing a technique for web designers. The current version of it is described in my article for P.I.E.

This new design sports what I believe to be a brand new way of creating a website that is flexible relative to one’s browser.

Since the majority of my small readership are not CSS nerds, I’ll start with a little background. Feel free to skip over that if you just want the code. (If you don’t want any of it, the final example is right here)

Read on…

Docking Is Better Than Floating

February 24th, 2005 0

Note: This article is more whimsy than tutorial. If you’re looking for instructions on how to dock a footer, I’ve found this method to be excellent.

Any web-standards person will tell you that CSS is better than tables, for laying out a site. This site uses CSS instead of tables. They’ll probably also tell you that as powerful as they are, some CSS techniques are just barely worth the effort.

If you’re well familar with positioning and floating already, you’ll want to skip these bits. Read on…

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