A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

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Authors: B: Ryan Brill

 Ryan Brill

Ryan Brill has a passion for design, especially when XHTML and CSS are involved. He’s fully devoted to doing his part to push the web in the right direction, not only when writing for his blog, but also when developing sites through his web development company, Infinity Web Design.

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Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins

Issue 183June 15, 2004

Two- and three-column, liquid page designs with header and footer are easy to dash off using old-school HTML table layout methods. Designing them in CSS is trickier, and can sometimes even require you to structure your page’s content elements in a specific (and undesirable) order. Negative margins to the rescue! Ryan Brill whips up two quick CSS layouts to demonstrate the power of negative thinking.