My First One
So be gentle. This is my first submission to GFWD. This design came about when playing around with layouts for my own site, for which I needed a lightweight, high speed/low drag template, for bandwidth concerns. I'm also a fan of minimalist design, in which there are not a bunch of graphics just for the sake of graphics. I look forward to feedback, and any pointers that you, the gurus of GFWD, can offer. I've learned a lot from your designs, and can only hope to learn more.
Content First
One of the things I wanted to keep in mind when building my site, is that I wanted the content to appear first for spiders. So this template puts the content above the left panel in the code, but floats to the right. So we get an attractive, standard location for navigation and secondary inforamtion.
The left panel and the content are in the same DIV, and the header and footer are outside this DIV. This allows the footer to stay below both the content *or* the left panel, whichever is taller.
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