ARTICLE NO. 17    December 16, 2005

One True Layout

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Pure CSS-based layouts have come a long way but they still have shortcomings that fail to address certain design goals without compromising the true separation of content and presentation.

In short, the problematic design goals are these:

Total Layout Flexibility: That is, the ability to order columns logically in the source while displaying them in any order desired. For any number of columns.

Equal Height Columns: Or more accurately, equal height columns without having to rely on faux columns.

Vertical placement of elements across grids/columns: Designers face the choice of relying on elements being a particular height, resorting to tables or simply not bothering.

Read the whole article at Position is Everything

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Constantinos is employed as a Creative Director for Tribal DDB Athens. In his ever dwindling spare time he works on the development of UX Magazine and Joblet. You can find out more about him here of follow him on twitter.

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December 16, 2005
trippy
December 16, 2005
good.
December 16, 2005
Roshambo: :) Oh-kay.
December 16, 2005
Alexoid: Position is everything has a pretty good tutorial. The whole article is a good read, actually. I recommend.
December 16, 2005
Alex: Any links to a tutorial? We’ll add it to the article. Cheers.
December 16, 2005
Um, the order column logically thing is pretty easy to do already, actually.