In this article I will share with you a technique for laying out stretchy websites (actually, I have found out that I cannot make non-stretchy ones), which I've been using for the last 2-3 years. This technique, which can be used for creating sophisticated modular grids, is easy to use but somewhat difficult to understand, and it does have some drawbacks. Basically, this article might be useful for web designers too, as website layout should be correctly designed before actual coding is done.
I want to share with you my approach to markup of double-columned templates where both columns must have the same height. It seems to be well-known and frequently discussed subject and every web-design resource provide to you at least a few ways to do it. But I must point your attention to one moment that described templates are like “bricks”, i.e. templates with fixed width and maximum one expanding column. I will show how to make two (or more) expanding columns and it will be not emulation like bold colorful border, but real full-scale column for which you can setup your background picture for example.
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