Magazine-style layouts

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Is it possible to create magazine layouts with CSS and standard XHTML in Dreamweaver? It certainly is. What's more, you can reuse those layouts in template form. Karl Hodge reveals the tweaks and cheats you'll need.

Web design has developed a look of its own over the last decade. But although it's possible for designers to break away from tradition, when they do they tend to abandon one of the primary tools of print design - the grid.

Magazines and newspapers have different rules, and even when those rules are broken they're broken in an orderly fashion. A 'callout' or 'boxout' may take up several columns, but they still fit into an overall grid system.

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