One of my regular clients has tasked me with a redesign of one of his sites. This is likely to be only a few pages with minimal text but a great deal of design elements. He has a graphic designer so I can focus primarily on the code. I thought it might be a good time to put to use what I learned in Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter).

So here are my goals for building the site:

• XHTML and CSS with Grid based layout for alignment
• Minimal use of Divs
• Positioning of elements rather than using floats
• Semantic use of List items to group related items even paragraphs with headers or menuitems
• write code top to bottom left to right reading even with CSS off or alternate CSS applied
• tables only for tabular data

Of these only using Positioned elements will be the toughest for me, most of the others I have put into practice already. Wish me luck.

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