Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / September 2003

I tried getting a complicated, multi-column box design on it's way on
my web-site and it works out fine on the IE6. Because I'm a relative
beginner to all stuff related to CSS and am used to workung with
tables to achieve the results I want, I'm still baffled by how easy
and good looking CSS-Layout can be, in code and the on screen results.
I will surely never use tables again...

But here's my problem: If you look at the site

http://www.stud.uni-giessen.de/asta/

you will find it displays correctly with the IE6. It will get messed
up with opera and netscape though. And try to sort through the
validation results here:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stud.uni-giessen.de%2Fasta

and here:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stud.uni-giess
en.de%2Fasta%2Fasta.css&warning=1&profile=css2&usermedium=all

I can tell you, it isn't pretty. Apart from that, I hate writing
invalid HTML. But right now, I really have no idea how to get my site
valid an displaying correctly while using CSS to describe the content
(provided by a CMS).

Other nags:
- How do you get everything fluid except the menu on the left?
- stuff keeps busting out of its frame... try making the
browser-windows smaller, you'll see what I mean...

All I'm looking for are a few good tips on how to get the site the way
I want it without having to worry about validation, the big browser
slip-ups, etc. I've been looking through the tutorials (glish et al.)
but nothing quite desribes what I need...

Hoping for help, thanks a lot,
Tom