What's the purpose?
The way to construct a beautiful and useful web site is NOT necessarilly so complicated that everyone of us should have to spent lots of time on it. Especially when CSS comes into the view. However, the CSS solution is not that simple as we might thought as to equal height of the multi columns. The purpose of this template is to show you how to construct a simple fullsize web page of that kind with CSS. This template is particularly useful for blog for its simplicity, well organized structure, large area for articles, and freedom of changing the font size.
How to use?
Download the html file (CSS style inline) and keep it as your start-up. Add image background. Change the content and theme to what you like. And finally, add up your favorate CSS rules.
The default chartset is set to "iso-8859-1". Please switch to the correspondent charset. For example, to use Chinese charset, change it to "gb2312".
Has it been tested?
The template has been tested under IE6/Win and Firefox.
Why so many repeating Welcome and Useful Links in the sideBar?
For testing the equal heights of the two columns. With so many sidebarBoxes, the height of sideBar will exceed the height of mainContent so you can see the effect in such situation. Then try to resize the browser to a smaller size by dragging at the right edge of it to increase the height of mainContent column, you will confirm the concept of "equal height".
Is there any known issue?
Yes, I have caught one. While resizing the browser to a different size, or sometimes refreshing or maximizing the page, IE6/Win does not render the bottom section of the "mainContent" correctly -- the background color of sideBar streches through. However, scroll up the mouse and then scroll down (to cause the browser render again), you should find the interferring color is gone and the missing texts are back there. It should be the bug of IE6/Win in realtime rendering. Such problem does not exist in Firefox. Solution for this issue is wanted and appreciated.
Is it free?
Yes, it's free under whatever circumstances, including directly usage and freely further modification.