Doing it with style
Most of my personal (read: "for fun") programming time lately has been involved with web design. Being much more comfortable hiding behind a nice solid business object, this is largely uncharted territory for me and, as such, provides the comfortable, nearly vertical, learning curve that we know and love. I decided up front that I was going to "do it right" and not fall back on the old <table> method of laying out the page contents. I had read, and heard, about the advantages of CSS based page layout, but had not had any direct exposure. In my research of what is available on the web I have collected a short list of valuable CSS resources that I wanted to share. So here goes...
The site that will make you a believer: CSS Zen Garden
Practical layout tips and tutorials: A List Apart
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I would say that, hands down, the AListApart site has been the most valuable so far, especially this article on how to use negative margin values along with column defining background images to define your 2 or 3 column layout all in CSS and have it degrade nicely. Sweet!