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fahmi
02 Mar 2011, 02:02 PM
Hi this is how we can create a website that looks like this

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5835/frm00001.jpg

whoa the image is so big :eek:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Sample</title>
<style type="text/css">
/* -------------------- css reset */

/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
v2.0 | 20110126
License: none (public domain)
*/

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed,
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup,
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure,
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
display: block;
}
body {
line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
content: '';
content: none;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}

/* -------------------- global */

html, body {
background-color: #ccc;
}

#website-wrap {
width: 920px; /* will be 960px after we add 20px side padding */
margin: 0 auto; /* auto will aligned the element in the center */
padding: 20px; /* 20px left + 20px right + 920px content area = 960px */
background-color: #999;
}

#header, #left-sidebar, #main-content, #right-sidebar, #column1, #column2, #column3, #column4 {
background-color: #333;
}

.clear {
clear: both;
}

p {
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 20px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

/* -------------------- header */

#header {
height: 50px;
}

/* -------------------- content */

#content {
margin-top: 20px;
}

#left-sidebar {
float: left;
width: 160px;
height: 200px;
margin-right: 20px;
}

#main-content {
float: left;
width: 560px;
height: 300px;
}

#right-sidebar {
float: right;
width: 160px;
height: 200px;
}

/* -------------------- footer */

#footer {
margin-top: 20px;
}

#column1, #column2, #column3, #column4 {
float: left;
width: 215px;
height: 100px;
margin-right: 20px;
}

div#column4 { /* this type of selector ensures it has higher specificity value that element selector */
margin-right: 0;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="website-wrap">
<div id="header">
<p>header</p>
</div><!-- end #header -->
<div id="content">
<div id="left-sidebar">
<p>left sidebar</p>
</div><!-- end #left-sidebar -->
<div id="main-content">
<p>main content</p>
</div><!-- end #main-content -->
<div id="right-sidebar">
<p>right sidebar</p>
</div><!-- end #right-sidebar -->
<br class="clear />"
</div><!-- end #content -->
<div id="footer">
<div id="column1">
<p>column 1</p>
</div><!-- end #column1 -->
<div id="column2">
<p>column 2</p>
</div><!-- end #column2 -->
<div id="column3">
<p>column 3</p>
</div><!-- end #column3 -->
<div id="column4">
<p>column 4</p>
</div><!-- end #column4 -->
<br class="clear />"
</div><!-- end #footer -->
</div><!-- end #website-wrap -->
</body>
</html>

Hope you guys can catch up! Ask me if there's anything confusing