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Do We Need Multi-Column Layout Web Page Designs? July 8, 2006

Given how long desktop publishing software has been around, and how powerful it is, have you ever wondered why (X)HTML and CSS have such a hard time producing multiple column web pages? Sure, you can create multiple columns with XHTML tables, but you cannot auto-flow text between columns. Sure, you could try replacing tables with CSS code, but try to properly align a layout with more than three columns with CSS, and you’ll be tearing your hair out. Well, UXD (links below), User eXperienced Design, has an exciting post about the new multi-column feature for CSS 3.0 - something I’ve …

CSS Image Display - Tweaking Your WordPress Theme Pt 2 April 13, 2006

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The title of this post is a bit of a misnomer, as we’re not really tweaking a WordPress theme, per se. The effect we want to achieve is to display an image with a blog post, and have the text flow around part of the perimeter of the image. This effect is actually very easy to achieve using what’s called inline CSS. We insert a style attribute into our <img src="" /> tag to indicate how we want to position an image. A second attribute is used to specify a margin.

Let’s start by having a first image float to the …

CSS Paragraph Display - Tweaking Your WordPress Theme Pt 1 April 12, 2006

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If you’re not happy with the WordPress theme that you currently have, there are a lot of great themes summarized over at BloggingPro. They don’t create the themes; they just point to some nice ones. There are also generic designs over at OSWD, which are also free. The drawback with the latter is that you will have to do some coding to import them into WordPress (or whatever).

I’ve downloaded a lot of nice themes, all of which I tweak slightly before using. Tweaking the design a bit makes it a touch more unique. The beauty of most WordPress …