Acknowledgements (and site details)
Site design: 2 and 3 column CSS
This site uses two templates produced by www.bluerobot.com.
I am most grateful to the author for making these freely available.
The two templates use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to achieve 2 or 3 column layouts, as opposed to HTML tables which are traditionally used in web design.
The layout will only work in browsers which support CSS, which are mostly those numbered 5 or higher. In the case of older browsers which do not recognise CSS, the site should degrade into a default style which should still be readable.
However, according to bluerobot, this layout fails in IE4.5/Mac. That browser has poor support for CSS absolute positioning, yet it recognizes and executes the CSS @import statement used to hide CSS from broken browsers. Currently, there is no known solution.
Thanks
I also found the following useful in building this website:
Sam's Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and XHTML by Laura Lemay
Introducing Web Design by Rob Young
In addition, much useful information was obtained from the CSS, Webdesign and "the list" email discussion lists.