Yeah, you can totally stick your other side-bar crap in this little pie-tin to sit tight off to the side while the variable-width cells to the right handle your excruciating need for fluid design.
This is my second web-template, ever. Again, it was made by using a basic Mambo template and extending the graphics to my desires.
Top Box
Put your lame excuse for a slogan, by-line, or mini-"About Us" rhetoric here, cheese-ball conformist!
Search
Here is where you'd put your stupid, ubiquitous, and minimalist search box, just because everyone else does.
This template was the second original template used at Skinyourscreen.com on opening day an for approximately the first 6 months. It was my first actual web-template, in practice and principle. I had never set myself to coding web-templates previously and did this one by significantly modifying an existing Mambo template at the time. This becomes exceptionally evident by the lack of any adherence to modern web-standards and accessible design parameters.
Although the template worked quite well at the time, in hindsight there are several things about this template that would preclude me using it in a production environment again:
Table-based design - The whole template relies on nested templates within templates to perform all the simple graphical layouts and positioning.
Table-based templates are a pain to code and modify.
Table-based templates are a nightmare of markup.
Table-based templates take significantly longer to load than table-less designs.
Table-based templates are NOT accesibility-minded, i.e.: people with disabilities (sight- or hearing-impaired) typically cannot easily navigate table-based templates using teletype or auditory browsing methods.
Table-based designs generally break when text is resized.
Table-based templates are indicative of web-coding practices used in the early 90s and do not accurately represent modern web-design.
This template lacks clean, semantic markup.
Mambo, at the time, made use of MANY odd and unnecessary DIV elements to contain and style various pieces of information.
Most of those unnecessary DIV elements could have been coded using proper CSS ancestry profiles using existing HTML elements.
I had no clue what I was really doing when constructing this template besides replacing graphics and graphics dimensions.
My CSS styling and typography in this template really suck!
Although it was my first real exposure to CSS and the customization it offers, this theme is sorely lacking for CSS readability.
