From the course: CSS: Float-Based Page Layouts (2012)

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Building fixed layouts: Lab

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From the course: CSS: Float-Based Page Layouts (2012)

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Building fixed layouts: Lab

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For this chapter's lab, I want to do something a little different. Instead of opening one of my partially completed sites and then finishing it, I want you to create a fixed-width layout from scratch. Well, almost from scratch. There's a little bit of a catch here. I actually want to find one of your favorite layouts and then re-create it. By examining an existing layout and then breaking down its grid, you'll gain a greater insight into the planning and structuring that goes into creating sites. Just as the way of showing you kind of the workflow that I want you to do for this lab, I have the lynda.com site open here. Pick one of your favorite layouts; it could be any site you want, or just a layout that you like. If it's a site that you can get into and kind of look through the CSS, that's even better. So in the case of lynda.com site, sometimes it's kind of hard to pick out exactly which CSS file I should be looking at. So you might want to try to find one that is a little bit…

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