Simple Menus With (x)HTML Lists And CSS

When it comes to creating a menu for your site one of the easiest ways is to use a simple unordered list as your (x)HTML structure and then style it using css. With the right styling you can even achieve some creative effects Let’s get right into the code and build a simple menu.

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CSS Layout Or Table Layout

Developing a design with a css layout or a table layout are the two predominate ways to build a website. Those of you who know me know I lean heavily on the side of css layouts, but there are still many who believe that a table layout is the better option. Recently I came across an article written by one such person. There so many inaccuracies in that article that I want to discuss it here.

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3 Column CSS Layout

You might have guessed that given my last post was about a 2 Column CSS Layout this one would be about developing a 3 Column CSS Layout. If you did give yourself a pat on the back and a couple of brownies points.

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2 Column CSS Layout

Though a lot of web developers are beginning to migrate to css in their sites I still see many developers struggling when using css to layout their sites. CSS styling is usually pretty easy to grasp, but it can take some time to get comfortable with using css positioning techniques to layout a site. All too often I see the same developers moving back to tables so I thought I would present a few simple layouts, beginning here with a 2 column css layout.

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The Benefits Of Cascading Style Sheets

If you’re not using cascading style sheets in your web pages yet shame on you. CSS has excellent support in today’s browsers. It’s relatively easy to learn and produces better and cleaner code than applying all those styles directly to your HTML.

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