A List Apart: Issue 232

February 6, 2007

Make sense of Flash embedding and build elastic multi-column layouts with columns of equal height.

Ever had to embed Flash into a web page and just been plain confounded about the best way to do it? Be confused no more! Bobby van der Sluis cuts through the arguments and opinions about the many techniques available.

Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box

by Alan Pearce

“Holy Grail,�? “One True Layout,�? “pain in the @$$�?... Alan Pearce presents a cleaner approach to designing multi-column layouts.

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originally ran: January 30, 2006

In Search of the Holy Grail

by Matthew Levine

Just in case you might want a three-column layout that doesn't require the usual sacrifices, we thought we'd share this technique. Not that you'd want that or anything.