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Three Column Themes Blue Lily Blue Lily is a three column theme which is quite simple and attractive, the main background is a striking blue with green color for the header. The navigation menu is right on the top of the page making it easily visible. Content area is big enough and has a gray background. There are […]

Three Column Themes

Blue Lily

Blue Lily is a three column theme which is quite simple and attractive, the main background is a striking blue with green color for the header. The navigation menu is right on the top of the page making it easily visible.

Content area is big enough and has a gray background. There are two sidebars which you can use to show off additional information.

Widget Ready: Yes

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock.

Validations: Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | Invalid CSS with 1 error

Demo | Release Page | Download

Blue Dream

Blue Dream is a three column theme with a graphical header and rounded navigational menu on the top of the page. The theme comes built in with RSS icons on top of the page to make it easier to subscribe to feeds.

There are two sidebars which can be used to display additional information and advertisements.

Widget Ready: Yes

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock.

Validations: Invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional with 32 errors | Valid CSS

Demo / Download

Airborne

Airborne is a three column theme which makes use of clouds in the header and footer sidebar section as a background. The main content area is a bit small which does not allow you to add big images into the content.

There are two sidebars for showing additional content, it also has a footer sidebar where you can add more content allowing you pack all the information like top posts, recent posts etc in a single page.

Note: The release page is in German.

Widget Ready: Yes

Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock.

Validations: Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | Valid CSS

Demo / Download

HTML 5 Spec Released, Warts and All
The W3C released the first draft of the HTML5 spec yesterday — warts and all. As far as technical specifications go, it’s pretty interesting reading. A large part of what is interesting is what is new in everybody’s favourite markup language: header, nav, article, dialog, section, aside, and footer elements The canvas element (shameless plug: there’s an awesome […]

The W3C released the first draft of the HTML5 spec yesterday — warts and all. As far as technical specifications go, it’s pretty interesting reading.

A large part of what is interesting is what is new in everybody’s favourite markup language:

• header, nav, article, dialog, section, aside, and footer elements
• The canvas element (shameless plug: there’s an awesome chapter about it in our latest book)
• Inclusion of the video and audio elements
• Support for persistent client-side data storage
• Support for users to edit documents and parts of documents interactively
• RSS feeds as part of the page’s markup

It’s just as interesting noting what’s missing:

• frame and frameset (hooray!)
• font (cheer!)
• applet, among others

Rumour has it that one faction of the HTML working group were lobbying hard to have the meta tag removed in order to prevent Microsoft from hijacking it, but they were clearly unsuccessful.

Check out the list of differences between HTML4 and HTML5 if you find the thought of tackling the entire spec a little daunting.

For me, what really makes the spec an entertaining read, however, is the fact that so many of the review comments for areas that are still problematic, are still in place. There is obviously still a fair amount of work ahead, though, if the following is anything to go by:

This article provided by sitepoint.com.