Thursday, August 05, 2004

There are so many articles on web standards and css layout techniques these days that when it came to me needing help I was almost spoilt for choice!

In my new position (well new about a month ago) at FPC Courier I am in charge of designing and building a site which will be high in profile and high in traffic. The brief was pretty straight forward, it needs to be fast loading and light on graphics to assist the impact on the servers. My first few designs were a little ambitious and then the logo changed colour and the design took a sudden unexpected swerve. However I have built all the templates in xhtml strict 1.0 with css only layout. In fact due to the nature of this site at the moment there is no tabular data and therefore not a single table tag throughout! I had to overcome a few obstacles on the way and I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the sites that helped me out.

First of all Russ Weakley's excellent Float Tutorial which helped me out with 3 column containers.

Next up was positioniseverything which sorted out my IE 3 pixel jog problem!

Finally there was Doug Bowman's filtering CSS article which led me to trim all the box model hacks and 3 pixel jog hacks out of my main css file and into a mid-pass-filter file.

Now everything is in place, I just have to see what happens when pages get rendered with real content...I fear some late nights are on the horizon.

Jon 11:04 AM Permalink