Proposed Web site redesign (beta)

[mike at handuma.com]

Yes Chris, MySQL is OK.

I found an interesting HTML comment in the source code for JCCC's home page,
"<!-- I almost had a completely table-free layout. But, thanks to Bill and his
wonderfully creative browsers, I've got this. --> <table class=3D'body' cellpadding=3D'0'
cellspacing=3D'0' summary=3D'This table contains the navigation, spotlight stories
and announcements of the web site.'> =09<tr><td><div class=3D'navbar'> =09 <div
class=3D"menu">......."

I love the name of this guy's global style sheet, <link rel=3D"stylesheet" title=3D'Site
Standard' type=3D"text/css" href=3D"/css/trueblue/splash.css">. TRUEBLUE. He's
obviously on the right path! 

Gerald has an unique and wonderful Web site. Appropriate for it's content. So
useful it's artistic! Another example of why stereotypes fail. Some Philistines
DO have home pages worthy of emulation.

I investigated some sites purporting to be authorities on web standards and
found them using tables for layout, for example, http://www.webstandards.com.
Other sites, however, were trueblue, http://www.alistapart.com. When I scanned
the source code at http://www.w3c.org, I was pleasantly surprised to find it
wasn't laid out with tables. It doesn't make any difference who's example the
club follows as long as you live up to your potential.

I'd like to design a three column layout that collapses as gracefully as Gerald's
ethereal.com.

handuma


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