Chapter 5. Building the Skeleton
Most books on CSS begin by teaching you how to deal with the bits and pieces of a Web page: fonts, colors, lists, and the like. Then, they move on to explaining the broader issues associated with CSS Positioning (CSS-P), which affect the layout of pages rather than the appearance of individual elements.
In this book, I take the opposite approach. I first look at the site-level and page-level issues involved with CSS design, so that we can understand the big picture perspective of page layout without tables (which is, after all, the primary thrust of this book). And later, in Part III, I'll discuss styling the content of the pages we'll be laying out in this and the next chapter.
This chapter focuses specifically ...
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