I’ve been in the web industry way too long, when I can date back to when image maps and things such as scrolling tags were prevelent and widely used among popular sites, sadly. Coming from a C background, web dev was cake, but introduction of technologies for style seperation and “Usability” within site design started arm twisting excercises with the advent of browser compliance headaches. We’ve gone quite a ways from simple to complex to making complex simple again. Grid based layouts used to be simple with a table layout, then the introduction of html4 and javascript craziness made people think twice how to design their code for their layout, not the end product itself. Eventually trends make it to a point where it becomes uncool to do without it. My headache, since I’m layout-challenged with CSS has been to always hack at existing layouts until I see it fit for the new usage. I’ve found a much better approach for desiging my grid layouts using this neat project called BluePrint CSS Framework.
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