Phil Oye

I want to be a good Web citizen. I do. I really do. I want to make my site adhere to Web Standards and use CSS and XHTML. Separation of content and presentation is a Good Thing™. I even want to adhere to the sprit of Web Standards. I want a liquid layout that doesn’t rely on HTML tables.

But alas, I’ve been trying to recreate my current site design to no avail. My site has a simple four column grid that I use differently throughout the site, sometimes I want content to span 1, 2, or 4 columns. Making this work in a liquid layout using CSS is clearly beyond me. Or is it beyond the technology? Absolute positioning? Relative positioning? Using float boxes? Arrrgh!

Or is the problem the fact that I want to maintain control of the design? Is that anti-thetical to the “new way”? If so, F___ that. I’ll stick to tables. After all, my site works just fine (for the most part) on a WAP phone.