In Closing . . .
As I said at the beginning of this book, technical skills are the underpinnings of creative expression, whether you are a musician, a dancer, or a Web site designer. I hope you found this book to be helpful in building your own technical skills and that you are perhaps even more inspired to pursue your own creative vision. I have filled its pages with the most useful stuff I could think of that you might need to understand and use CSS. This information is a blend of the results of long hours of trying to make things work they way I wanted them, and the encapsulation of the ideas, examples, and advice that so many brilliant and generous people in the Web community have posted for the rest of us to use. Now it's your turn to start stylin'!
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And for a final parting shot, here's the Snergs page laid out in with negative margins (Figure 8.29):
This site looks virtually identical to the version we laid out in this chapter, but if you download the snergs_negative_margins.htm file from the Stylin' site, you will see that the markup is very different. Because we are using a floated columns layout, instead of an absolutely positioned one, we can extend the footer full width as there is no danger of the side columns extending over it if their content becomes very long; the longest column determines the position of the footer with this template, whichever that might be. |
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