HTML 4.01 Strict Centered Template Feb 23, 19:28

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Well I missed my first second day on this Blogathon. But hey, 2 out of 30 isn’t bad, I haven’t dropped out yet!

I don’t believe I blogged about this, but I’ve put up a template for you all to use. It’s nothing special, in fact it’s pretty fug. But it’s the base I use for most of my layouts (centered container with two div’s floated left and right with a header and footer). You can remove the extra styles and customize as you please. I only added them to show you what you could do to it.

To validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict

Add a trailing slash, /> to all tags without a closing tag. In this template there is only one tag to change (if you don’t add more): <meta HTTP-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>

Turn it into a Liquid (or elastic) layout

Find width:700px; and change it to a percentage. The content and sidebar div’s are both relative in width so you shouldn’t have any problem resizing (meaning that they’ll resize with the container).

I’m toying with another template I use, the one you see up right now, and considering putting it up. I’m not entirely sure that the methods I use are the best, so I’ll go over the CSS and remove anything that isn’t necessary or a good practice and release when/if that’s done.

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Hi, I would just like to double check if it’s okay for me modify your template into a Wordpress theme. Thank you.

#1 Lils Mar 1, 08:24 Permalink

Sorry for the late reply, but yes you may modify it to use as a Wordpress theme. You can do whatever you like so long as I’m credited :)

#2 Becky Mar 4, 03:16 Permalink

I will credit of course. :)

#3 Lils Mar 17, 03:01 Permalink

Oh, I’m so glad I found this! I’ve been looking for a good base to use for my sites, since I can no longer manage to get my CSS floats right on the first three tries.

Thank you so much for posting your basic source!

#4 Mari Aug 13, 15:40 Permalink

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