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I had to buy this book for school and I didn't think it would be of much help because it is mostly straight html based. The great thing about this book is that it's been updated to the latest standards and compliances and it's easy to find what I need right away.

Today I finally fixed this layout. Looked fine most of the time to you, right? If not, let me know and send a screenshot so that I can take a look at it. Anyway, I was having problems positioning and for some reason every time I submitted a new entry it would move the right-hand menu below the entries. Confusing, no? It was to me, as I had to add a new /div tag underneath the entries section of the template in order to put it back where it belonged. I knew I needed to find a new way to fix this template.

So I yanked out the book that I hardly looked at during class and looked up positioning. I am not very well versed with positioning and I normally use margins to do all of the positioning for layouts. Obviously this wasn't working and I needed to do something more proper. I added position: absolute to each section and then told it how many pixels from the top and left I wanted the middle and right columns.

Even this was confusing because I had to adjust them to each other or something. In Photoshop, according to the ruler, the right-hand column is 655 pixels from the beginning of the image. Yet I only had to set it for 300 and some odd pixels in order to position it properly.

Same with the width from the top. Middle and Right are both set at 50 or 60 pixels respectively from the top instead of the amount it would be according to Photoshop's ruler. I don't understand this one bit, but tha'ts fine with me.

This book helped me in my time of need and for any web designer that's always a plus. So I am definitely going to recommend this book for every designer out there who needs to know the little things about web design that change or aren't always remembered.

I know there is always a way to do what I need to get done and there's always a right way to do it, this book showed me not only the right away to do it, but how to do it as well.