CMX JumpStart: Kansas City ![[Registration never required for free content]](/images/free.gif)
By: Heidi Bautista on Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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Welcome to the next design in the CMX JumpStarts series, Kansas City, located in the wide, open great plains of the U.S.
The Kansas City JumpStart is a two-column design based on Zoe Gillenwater’s Horizontal Band Layout. The content is centered and fixed-width. The bands of color behind the header, footer, and main navigation bar stretch across the entire browser giving the design a wide, open feeling. Much like driving through the miles and miles of wheat fields in Kansas.
As with all of our JumpStarts, Kansas City can be used in any way you wish, commercial or personal, and includes several tutorials, an extension, and source PNG.
Kansas City is structured to be as hack-free and straightforward as possible. So, if you've been looking for a smooth transition into using CSS for positioning as well as aesthetics, this may be just the JumpStart for you.
Kansas City comes with a starter page and a nicely styled form page. Of course, both use valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2 markup and follow WAI and Section 508 accessibility guidelines making it ready for you to customize to suit your own requirements.
