<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2007-07-27, at 22:46, me22 wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS">2) Please use ems (or some other non-absolute size) for the widths.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS">really like my big, widescreen monitor, but sites that set the content</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS">width to 800 pixels just look silly, especially since I have the font</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS">sizes somewhat higher than usual. (80 em is often a decent choice for</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS">the main content area.)</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>I have no significant complaints, but it sounds like folks want fluid widths. Probably the simplest technique would be to float the left nav using a negative-margin…</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>#leftnav { float: left; width: 200px; margin-left: -210px; }</div><div>body { margin-left: 220px; }</div><div>#footer { clear: left; }</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And I guess I second whinging re the drop shadows and misfit footer coloration.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>— Gordon</div><div> </div><br></body></html>