28th
August
2001
Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step
Ug. “The Challenge: Replicate WebRef’s front page using CSS. The Solution: CSS and lots of iterations. Rogelio Lizaolo improves on Kwon Ekstrom’s CSS version of WebRef’s tabled home page. Months in the making, the final design successfully duplicates WebRef’s layout without the use of tables. Numerous bugs were discovered in Netscape and Explorer in how they handle CSS, and we found some elegant workarounds to these and other problems. What follows is a step by step CSS layout tutorial that shows how we got to the final design.”