A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

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Authors: F: Daniel M. Frommelt

 Daniel M. Frommelt

Daniel M. Frommelt is the University World Wide Web Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin — Platteville, an executive committee member of the Campus Web Council of Wisconsin, and a web standards advocate. Daniel spends his free time brewing beer.

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Cross-Column Pull-Out Part Two: Custom Silhouettes

Issue 191January 11, 2005

The cross-column pull-out gave us a new technique for marking up a layout with a pull-out positioned between columns. Now we examine a variation of the technique for wrapping around the edges of a non-rectangular image positioned between columns.

Cross-Column Pull-Outs

Issue 190December 21, 2004

Print designers like to wrap text around images that sit between columns. Now you can, too. Daniel Frommelt takes us where no web layout has gone before.

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards Part II

Issue 165December 4, 2003

In Part I, we showed how Slashdot could save money and reduce bandwidth requirements by converting to semantic XHTML markup and CSS layout. In Part II, we explore how standards-compliant markup and deft use of CSS could make Slashdot and your sites play nicely in print and on handheld devices.

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Issue 164November 21, 2003

A look at the markup behind Slashdot.org demonstrates how simple and cost-effective the switch to a standards-compliant Slashdot could be. (Part I of a two-part series.)