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Sleaziest Yellow Journalism Rag West of Death Valley. (With design notes.)

Employment

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

Here, column 1, is a probable spot for a vertical navigation menu. This div has a fixed width.

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

FlyByNight Airlines. Now hiring. We need personell for all disciplines. Inquire at 800-555-1212, or email your resume to fbnAirlines@cs.com.

For Sale

Houseboat, good condition. presently on Salton Sea. Very few barnacles. 3br, 2ba, two stories, good second home.

Boat House, good condition. presently on Salton Sea. Very few barnacles. 3br, 2ba, two stories, good second home.

This design experiments with various ways to achieve a fluid layout. The premise is the need for multiple columns, all on the front page. Sort of like a newsletter, but with the ability to put lots of text up through the magic of scroll bars (though not very stylish), this layout demonstrates elastic design using NO tables and NO frames.

There are 9 columns, col1 - col9, each as a div. Columns 1 and 3 are required to be fixed width. All others, 2 and 4 - 9, must be elastic. In other words, the whole layout must be elastic, capable of filling the display window whether it be 640x480, 800x600, 1280x1024, or whatever. It looks best at 1280x1024 because at small window sizes a horizontal scroll bar will appear, and on very large windows, the lines may be too long to be "aesthetic". But, that´s due to the choice of the viewer setting the window size, not the designer.

The layout is organized in rows. Row 1 has columns 1 - 3, row2 has 4 - 5, and row 3 has 6 - 9. So, every row has some elastic element in it. But row 1 is special: it has 2 fixed-width divs and one elastic div. To achieve row1´s special properties, absolute positioning must be used (IMHO). But, the overall layout should be done with floats and clears (IMHO), not absolutely positioned everything.

To meet the requirements, row1 is wrapped in a "container" div whose rules are position:relative; and height:260px; . Container must be a positioned element so its contents can be absolutely positioned inside it and relative to its origin. But container has no offsets so it just flows normally into the layout.

Cols 1 - 3 are then positioned absolutely to give the desired effect.
Partial rules for the 3 columns are:
  1. position:absolute; width:180px; left:5px; top:10px; height:270px;
  2. position:absolute; top:10px; height:270px; left:198px; right:205px;
  3. position:absolute; width:180px; height:270px; top:10px; right:10px;
As can be seen, columns 1 and 3 have fixed widths of 180 pixels. Col 1 left edge is positioned 5 pixels from the left edge of container. Col 3 right edge is positioned 10 pixels from the right edge of container. Column 2 has no specified width (it´s an elastic width). Its left edge is 198 pixels from the left edge of container (making room for column 1). Its right edge is 205 pixels from the right edge of container (making room for column 3). These numbers were chosen to give some room for the gray background to show through between the columns.

The net effect is that container is now elastic because col2 is elastic. The key point is to not specify a width for col2, but to just specify where its edges should be.

Columns 4 through 9 all have their widths specified as percentages, thereby making them elastic. Also, columns 4 through 9 are floated. Col4 and col6 use clear:left to start new rows. Check the style sheet to see their widths. Using floats and clears makes changes easier than absolutely positioning all divs. But, to get fixed widths, position:absolute is required.



Wanted

Need exotic animals for new zoo. Unusual species preferred. All climates will be represented.

Need exotic cars for garage. Unusual species preferred. All styles will be represented.

Here, column 3, will probably be used for brief notes about things relating indirectly to the main message. This div has a fixed width. Only cols 1 and 3 have fixed widths.

Need exotic computers for a "cloud farm". Unusual species preferred. All operating systems will be represented.

Need exotic animals for new zoo. Unusual species preferred. All climates will be represented.

Need exotic animals for new zoo. Unusual species preferred. All climates will be represented.

Need exotic animals for new zoo. Unusual species preferred. All climates will be represented.

Need exotic animals for new zoo. Unusual species preferred. All climates will be represented.

Automotive

Needed: some cool pictures here.

CADILLAC:
2007 ETC, CTC, XTC - all $35,000
CHEVY:
2006 Malibu, $26,500
BENTLEY
2005 Continental, $254,000
South Coast Snooty Motors. We can't give out our phone number or address. Sorry.

Bentley GT
2007 ETC, CTC, XTC - all $235,000
CHEVY:
2006 Malibu, $26,500
BENTLEY
2005 Continental, $254,000
South Coast Snooty Motors. We can't give out our phone number or address. Sorry.

CADILLAC:
2007 ETC, CTC, XTC - all $35,000
CHEVY:
2006 Malibu, $26,500
BENTLEY
2005 Continental, $254,000
South Coast Snooty Motors. We can't give out our phone number or address. Sorry.

CADILLAC:
2007 ETC, CTC, XTC - all $35,000
CHEVY:
2006 Malibu, $26,500
BENTLEY
2005 Continental, $254,000
South Coast Snooty Motors. We can't give out our phone number or address. Sorry.

CADILLAC:
2007 ETC, CTC, XTC - all $35,000
CHEVY:
2006 Malibu, $26,500

BENTLEY
2005 Continental, $254,000
South Coast Truly Snooty Motors. We can't give out our phone number or address. Sorry.

Business Opportunities

Pet Store Operator - Franchise
We stock the following species. Please select your favorite pet for more product information.

Financial Advisor
No experience necessary. 3-day training program.

Web Designer

Master mason

Big game trapper - elks

Pets

The shelters are overflowing with animals that have been abandoned. Please give a nice animal a good home.

The following potential pets are available:

Personals

This page is more functional than beautiful. But sometimes, that´s exactly what you need. True beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Men seeking women.

Men seeking men.

Women seeking men.

Women seeking women.

Dogs seeking cats.

Cats seeking dogs.

Birds seeking cats.

Cats seeking mice.

Men seeking CARS !!!

Notices

This program will self destruct in 60 seconds.

The Earth will self destruct in 2012, around the end of December.

Facebook is fluff.

Corrections

In the last edition, we misspelled some very important writer's name. Unfortunately, we can't remember who it was or what was his/her name.
All of our ads are stolen directly from other rags. Don't blame us if they're out of date.

Row 1: Cols 1 and 3 are absolutely positioned with fixed widths and heights, inside a floated, relatively positioned container.
But col2 is elastic, having its left and right values specified, and no specific width.
Rows 2 and 3: Cols 4 thru 9 are floated with fixed percentage widths, and are therefore elastic.
Body is given a min-width value of 700px to force a horizontal scroll bar if user shrinks window width too low.
This is an example of semi-fluid 3/2/4-column layout.

Each column head uses a dotted bottom border with a capitalized small-caps monospaced font.

Some colunm divs have forced scrollbars, some use auto.
The alternate is to remove the whole style sheet.