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Ryan Brill

Ryan is a New York City based web developer and have been developing websites professionally since late 2000. He primarily does front-end XHTML and CSS work, but also design and back-end work with PHP and MySQL.

Entries by Ryan Brill

  • Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins

    Issue 183 · 

    Two- and three-column, liquid page designs with header and footer are easy to dash off using old-school HTML table layout methods. Designing them in CSS is trickier, and can sometimes even require you to structure your page’s content elements in a specific (and undesirable) order. Negative margins to the rescue! Ryan Brill whips up two quick CSS layouts to demonstrate the power of negative thinking.

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