Here are the skeleton files I mentioned in my previous post.
This site skeleton is a typical two-column layout with a footer that always sticks to the bottom of the page. Unlike some solutions, this method works in all browsers and uses no JavaScript.
Check it out. Hopefully it is useful to somebody.
Over the past two days I created this:
http://www.cs.wright.edu/safe06/
This should have been a pretty simple site but I ran into some major technical issues. For one thing, creating cross-browser CSS footers like this is a quite difficult task. Doing this took some serious research. Many people online say it is impossible and others say to use JavaScript. Mike found a way to do it with pure CSS. He has a lot of time on his hands I think, but it was well worth it. I plan to post an empty shell of the site for illustrative purposes when I get around to it.
The other difficulty we ran across involved a browser bug in Firefox 1.0. I was having funny behavior in my footer on a couple pages and neither of us could figure out the cause. Eventually (after Mike basically rewrote the entire site and we had both spent several hours troubleshooting) we discovered that the problem didn’t exist on his PowerBook running Firefox 1.5. I immediately upgraded and I recommend you all do the same. Normally when we run into a problem with IE we assume it is the browser’s fault, but with Firefox we were blindsided.
Look for a future post featuring our new skeleton CSS layout with a working footer.
It is a sad sad week. I sold my 1998 BMW 323is to my uncle on Friday. Many of you have never known me to have another car. We were together for a long time (over 5 years) and I put about 114,000 miles on it in that time. The thing still looked like new except for the unavoidable rock chips in the hood. I decided that having it was unnecessary since my family has an extra vehicle here in Ohio. It seemed like it was just depreciating out in Arizona. Now I will be trying to make some interest on the money and saving some more money to buy a nice car when I graduate.