Sure! It's all a little overwelming in the beginning, I know. However, just start with the first and most important question: what do you want to achieve? Basicly, there are 3 options: 1) fixed width: give the containers a certain width in px. say, 750px container, 250px leftcol, 500px maincol. Enough examples for this, for example www.alistapart.com (also many, many excellent articles!) 2) fluid width: give everything a % width, and % margins. Example: the excellent demo, also for the float techniques used - http://www.orderedlist.com/demos/fne/ 3) elastic design. in which basically the layout resizes with the increasing or decreasing text sizes. Must reads: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200504/fixed_or_fluid_width_elastic/
Further resources: some large linklists, maybe a bit too much but always handy to know: http://www.alvit.de/vf/en/essential-bookmarks-for-webdesigners-and-web-developers.html http://www.skyzyx.com/resources/ http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/main/linkLibrary.php http://www.andybudd.com/links/cssweb_standards/index.php Hope this helps, feel free to ask more. It really helps if you specify your question and what you want to accomplish as specific as possible. Matthijs On 5/26/05, Silbert, Debra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Matt: > > I'm a little new to this. I want the left content to always allow for > the widest text, no matter what the resolution. I also want to be sure > the center content is kept at a reasonably easy to read width -- too > many words are harder to view. > > I'm sure how px vs. em vs % impacts any of this and which gives more > exacting results. Can you recommend a good Web resource for me to > study? > > Thanks! > > Debbie ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
