Of course, this version is somewhat overladen with hacks and additional markup. So, just to show how it could (nay, should and will) be, here's a slimmed down version that jettisons all the extraneous cruft. Of course, it only works in Safari... (and Firefox as of 1.5) Boxes
A scalable em-based layout which is unremarkable other than the fact that it raises yet more questions about Opera's positional abilities, and that it would be nigh on impossible to achieve with Faux Columns. Borders with backgrounds
A liquid percentage-based layout that is utterly unremarkable. Even Opera 8 doesn't require any particularly bizarre hacks. Results for these examples can be found in Appendix C.
"Real world" examples Unfortunately legal and intranet issues prevent me from showing you genuine working sites using these methods. Consequently I've brewed up a couple of quick makeovers that achieve much the same results as the originals but using the now, all-too familiar techniques. Tucows design fragment
A retrofit of an existing design pattern achieved without touching the underlying HTML.