Welcome to the continuing beta. Bugs reports welcome.
In-house Web design; WCAG 2 draft; 100% height
Well, I’m another year older today and that coincides with someone finally hitting this site looking for the Saila-brand of licorice mints. (Apparently “Saila” is also the name of the chief or prophet of the Kuna people in Panama.)
So, enough about me, on to some Web design. New Architect has an excellent article about how an in-house Web design project should be done (the guidelines are quite similar to the one's followed at the Science Centre). Boxes and Arrows, meanwhile, compares Web design with mall and retail design. The article is, like many B&A pieces, too long, but worth scanning for the good insight contained within.
Also, W3C released the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 working draft. Notably, there is no direct reference to table- or CSS-based layouts. The closest is: “Make all content and structure available independently of presentation.”
An example of a box that is 100 percent of the browser window’s height, sits in the centre of that window, has a background colour, holds content and works in the vast majority of browsers that is valid XHTML (strict) and valid CSS.