Basic CSS Layout

On this week's podcast, Bob goes back to basics. Many people are still trying to make their way from table-based html layouts to pure CSS layouts. This week's episode is about the bare bones basics of creating a 2 column, fixed width CSS layout from scratch. It uses very little code to start creating standards-friendly sites...let us know, in the comments, if it was helpful for you!

Good primer on CSS. This would have been nice to have a few years a go when I was learning CSS :) One thing you may want to cover at some point is selecting the right DOCTYPE. I noticed you were using HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL in this case. It was easy to tell since all of the HTML tags were caps :) Thanks for the hard work on these videos. I love them. Shrop
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Shrop
You busted me shrop. Normally I use an XHTML doctype (or HTML strict)...but as you see, I grabbed this starter html template from a random site. Normally, I'd encourage at least 'strict' if not XHTML. I don't know much about doctypes, so I may not be the one to talk on this. I recommend checking out doctype info from Zeldman's book...it's basically where I learned everything I know on the issue with regards to a Web Standards world.
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Bob
Great episode. Just what I needed. I had one question. In your example you made a two column layout. But, as it stands right now, both columns have different heights. Is there anyway to make the two columns the same height, while still maintaining a dynamic height. So, what I don't want to do is just type height: ???. Thanks in advance. You rock!!!
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Kwang Lee
Zeldman's book covers doctypes and related things pretty well. I love that book. Regardless of the doctype used, the point was still on target to demo a 2 column layout. Thanks! Shrop
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Shrop
Can you tell me what your editor is again?? I can't remember what you said at the conference. Also, can you post the text you wrote for the example you used? Thanks!! YOU ROCK MAN!!
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Larry Miller
thanks man... that was helpful and refreshing..
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Nate J
this great intro to css. asked a brother, you know of any company or institution taking distance courses, but full css?, leave my email below, thanks
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