I'm concentrating on developing an external style sheet for my "soon to be redesigned"^* web site. I am attemping to move away from Frontpage 2003. I have some expermentation to show for all of my research. Check out the sandbox. I've attempted writing three column style sheets, but I have too much to learn and I want to get on with content development, not web site design. I am, after all, a C++ programmer with some C# skills and CLI skills.

I recently found Matthew Taylor's web site, which offers several layouts and Eric Costello's personal web site that offers some excellent examples. The layout you see in the sandbox is modified from glish. I plan to experiment with Taylor's three column layout, as it offers some nice effects I'd like to implement. I found a technique for using lists to emulate tabbed menus on Taylor's site. It appears that The Telegraph and Fox News use this technique and extend it to a two row, stacked menu with extensions. I like this technique because it is lightweight text with no graphics to download and it has nice mouse over effects. Taylor has a display page that illustrates the use of styles with tabbed menus.

^* I should trademark this phrase, or patent it as a mindless content filler expression.