Here's one for some true inspiration for what divs-n-peas+css can do for your site/design:

http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/

The sky's the limit for what could be done with layout then

Cool!

sweeeeeeet. I really, really, really need to start using div's rather than relying on (crutch) tables for page layouts

Nice!

Here is the entrant I've been working on...

Zen Garden CSS

Looks cool tacks

Nice job tacks!

Mozilla 1.4 really mangles a few aspects of that.

Lol..I haven't tested it in other browsers, nor have I added any eye popping graphics yet.

Looking for insights into what goes into the design process behind the zen-garden masterpieces? Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign describes the creative process by which he arrived at his CSS Zen Garden entry, “ The Golden Mean .”

Got a nice interview of the guy in charge of the zengarden site:

http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5442

When someone comes up with a good solution for this problem then I'll be ditching HTML tables but not until then Everything I've tried hasn't worked or just resulted in there being more code then using HTML tables and not working as well (sort of defeats the point).

*ponders*

I suppose, then, that what I did as a test is impossible?

(Note the footer. At the bottom.)

Then again, this isn't a CSSP layout... it relies on some padding and other trickery.

is there any way you also get it to be below the right sidebar too?

zg won 'best in show' at the 2004 sxsw conference :
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/index.php

Here's some css templates that may help with your problem. It's mostly German, but understandable

http://intensivstation.ch/css/template.php

They *do* have 8 new choices over at zengarden

http://www.mezzoblue.com/dailies/2004/04/10/

how zen of you

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