netmag.co.uk— John Oxton explores how to make a simple but effective liquid layout, which will work across browsers and uses absolute positioning
Oct 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
"by people who remember the days of tables"As if to say they're over? I'm forced to work with tables daily, so am I some geezer at 26? Whippersnappers, I tell ya... And it would be more appropriate to say that it's getting overblown by the people who DON'T remember the days of tables, but even that would be an erroneous statement. As far as CSS goes — liquid, fixed, it's all preference at this point really. Devices aren't unified enough yet to assign what's right or wrong (nor will they ever be). Pros and cons exist for everything, it's really all about your target audience. At this point it's wise to be well-versed in everything but increasingly hard.
how is it that just because duggmirror can automatically detect the url that that has to be a rule that it HAS to automatically detect the url. I find that shallow and pedantic. just like this meatloaf.
Does it never stop? Do diggers suck at CSS/XHTML so bad? You really shouldn't need a tutorial like this. If you do need this...what will happen when you run into your first browser incompatibility? Just draw something completely outrageous in photoshop/photopaint, slice it up and don't stop trying until it's a smooth, flexible, maintainable, browser-compatible, standards-compliant CSS/XHTML layout. That's how you learn CSS/XHTML. (note that I don't call it CSS, they're really not independent)I have yet to see one article about vertically centered layouts on digg (which actually IS kind of nasty/interesting).
Closed AccountOct 16, 2006
"by people who remember the days of tables"As if to say they're over? I'm forced to work with tables daily, so am I some geezer at 26? Whippersnappers, I tell ya... And it would be more appropriate to say that it's getting overblown by the people who DON'T remember the days of tables, but even that would be an erroneous statement. As far as CSS goes — liquid, fixed, it's all preference at this point really. Devices aren't unified enough yet to assign what's right or wrong (nor will they ever be). Pros and cons exist for everything, it's really all about your target audience. At this point it's wise to be well-versed in everything but increasingly hard.
Closed AccountOct 16, 2006
@blackmurtaghYes - the link is still down for everyone, and will probably stay down for a while (that's just what digg does).<a class="user" href="http://duggmirror.com/design/Create_a_simple_liquid_layout/">http://duggmirror.com/design/Create_a_simple_liquid_layout/</a>Use the above link until it comes back online.
trogdoorOct 16, 2006
Everyone knows about duggmirror, and there is a little link in the bottom right of peoples comments that looks like this : [reply]<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/design/Create_a_simple_liquid_layout?creplyto=3449384#creplyform">http://digg.com/design/Create_a_simple_liquid_layout?creplyto=3449384#creplyform</a>Use the above link until you find it.
moduloOct 16, 2006
how is it that just because duggmirror can automatically detect the url that that has to be a rule that it HAS to automatically detect the url. I find that shallow and pedantic. just like this meatloaf.
fquednauOct 16, 2006
@Jimmylin"cross-browser": Need to work with IE 6.0 here at my client's side. Some of the templates don't work very well in there. Just an info.
tybrisOct 16, 2006
Does it never stop? Do diggers suck at CSS/XHTML so bad? You really shouldn't need a tutorial like this. If you do need this...what will happen when you run into your first browser incompatibility? Just draw something completely outrageous in photoshop/photopaint, slice it up and don't stop trying until it's a smooth, flexible, maintainable, browser-compatible, standards-compliant CSS/XHTML layout. That's how you learn CSS/XHTML. (note that I don't call it CSS, they're really not independent)I have yet to see one article about vertically centered layouts on digg (which actually IS kind of nasty/interesting).
bisqwitOct 16, 2006
The site seems to be liquidified.
senywdFeb 24, 2009
Download free standards compliant CSS layouts: <a class="user" href="http://www.free-css-layouts.com">http://www.free-css-layouts.com</a>