Title: CSS layout help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# CSS layout help

 *  [Joebar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joebar/)
 * (@joebar)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/)
 * Lookin to redesign my theme a bit.. and I’m a complete CSS layout newb. What 
   I have was mostly generated by some wizard thingy I found.
 * Below is what I have so far (just placeholders). Displays as intended in Firefox,
   but slightly off in IE — don’t know about any other browsers. I’m sure it’s something
   very simple, but I cant figure it out.
 * [http://techakke.com/test/test.html](http://techakke.com/test/test.html)
 * “ads” and “headright” should be on the same line. The gray parts will both contain
   two pieces of my header image
 * CSS: [http://techakke.com/test/test.css](http://techakke.com/test/test.css)

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 *  Thread Starter [Joebar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joebar/)
 * (@joebar)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260407)
 * hmm it just struck me that maybe I should make the gray header thing one big 
   rectangle and overlap the purple “ads” box in the bottom left corner instead 
   of making 3 separate divisions?
 * Yeah, that’s probably the right way to do it (not that I know how, but can probably
   fig it out 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Joebar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joebar/)
 * (@joebar)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260410)
 * woohoo.. gettin there
 * [http://techakke.com/test/test2.html](http://techakke.com/test/test2.html)
 *  [clintanderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clintanderson/)
 * (@clintanderson)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260425)
 * I know it stinks not getting any replys, I am new to this also. Hang in there
   Joe!
 *  [robertmcclelland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertmcclelland/)
 * (@robertmcclelland)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260426)
 * Your best approach is to find a theme that best matches what you want and then
   begin modifying it. This will get you familiar with how and why a style sheet
   does what it does. Once you can master that, you can then move on to design your
   own.
 *  [clintanderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clintanderson/)
 * (@clintanderson)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260427)
 * That is excellent advise Robert, that is exactly what I am going to do.
 *  Thread Starter [Joebar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joebar/)
 * (@joebar)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260456)
 * Yeah, working on finding a good working 3-col now.. It’s pretty difficult getting
   em working correctly across browsers (which seems to be the consensus on the 
   ol’ interweb 🙂 lots of hackin required)
 *  [clintanderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clintanderson/)
 * (@clintanderson)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260457)
 * I am just trying for IE 6 and Firefox whatever latest build is, everyone else
   is just going to have to conform! lol
 *  [adapting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adapting/)
 * (@adapting)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-layout-help/#post-260713)
 * Just found this post. There is a small but cool collection of CSS XHTML layouts
   at [http://www.alanwho.com/web-development/css/7-css-xhtml-11-layouts](http://www.alanwho.com/web-development/css/7-css-xhtml-11-layouts).
   I have been using them a lot lately. The best 3 column liquid there is [this one](http://www.alanwho.com/layouts/3col-liqud-equal_column_height.html).

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