Congrats Ejsing! Nice piece.

Haha! Thank you guys again! :D

Yeah cool design Peter! Good luck man!

#73 is easily the best. Nice one Peter!

I can commit to helping you with two other pages and anything else you might need.

Thanks for the contest!

WheatField

Kelly,

I've gone the <table> path before, and it can be pretty taxing for complex layouts, However for simple layouts it is easy to use. So I say it depends. But for this I would suggest going to a tableless layout =). Just a suggestion, it will be up to the CH.

@GDT Design - I was going to get into the whole "tables vs div" thing, but decided not to since there is still a lot of controversy about which method is better. Google "tables vs CSS divs" and you'll get loads of opinions from both camps.

Personally, I prefer div layouts over table-based layouts because, as you said, it's a lot easier to maintain in the long run - especially if it's a complicated design. Nested tables can be a nightmare. Still, I occasionally cheat and revert back to a table layout if I can't get something to look right in all browsers without a load of hacking. Either way, everything gets styled via the stylesheet so in my mind, it's all good. ;o)

The rounded boxes can be set as background using CSS. Like the in the project videos my guess it that you'll limit the teaser text to a certain number of characters, so you can just set the background to a fixed width and height.

For example, my 20" flat panel shows more of the designs than my 15" notebook, but both are set to 1024:780. Is it supposed to work that way at the same resolution, or should the whole image shrink so that the same amount of content fits in each. I've yet to test on a netbook.
- Nope it won't shrink, most of the designs here are fixed width optimized for 1024 x 768 monitors (since a vast majority use this resolution), I purposedly widened my design to give you a perspective of what it will look like in a wide screen monitor. To get a perspective on how it would look like in a standard 1024 x 768 resolution just align it center of your monitor.

I would advise you to use a table-less layout (for the main structure), it uses less code and is easier to maintain, you can use tables on certain portions of the site that require or would seem more practical.

Rounded corners can also be done thru CSS, not sure if it will be compatible with old browsers as Kelly said. That can be fixed by using CSS for maximum compatibility.

@Scott - Both can be achieved and maintained fairly easily using CSS, whether you go with a table-based layout or a div-based layout - especially if your layout is fixed width. Fluid layouts are a little harder to implement.

In the simplest terms, page elements are rectangular by nature. Styling block level elements can be as easy as assigning background and border colors in your stylesheet. You don't usually have to worry about the height and/or width of the element because the styling will apply, regardless of the element's dimensions.

Using rounded corners is a little more complicated, but still pretty easy to achieve using CSS. You simply call a background image in your stylesheet. The tricky part is knowing whether the background image can be used as a whole or whether it needs to be sliced into several background images.

For example, if you have a block whose dimensions won't ever need to change based on the content inside, you can call a single background image in your CSS. If your block element needs to expand to accommodate the content inside, then you'd typically want to build a container by slicing the background image into a top image, a bottom image and a vertically tiling middle image (if there's no gradients or texture in the middle, you can use background color and border instead of an image).

Rounded corners can also be achieved solely through CSS methods, but I'm not sure of the compatibility across the different browsers. I generally stick to the methods described above.

Once the site is created, maintenance is usually just a matter of editing the stylesheet.

Hope that helps!
KH

nice entries ejsing.

Thanks for extending the contest, Scott. Good luck everyone!