CMX JumpStarts: Aspen
By: Zoe Gillenwater on Thursday, December 23, 2004
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Community MX is pleased to announce the release of the latest CMX JumpStarts designs, Aspen. As with all the JumpStarts, you can use and modify the design in any way you see fit, for commercial work or otherwise.
Aspen is a three column liquid-width design that includes floats, fixed and absolute positioning, background positioning, styled lists, a base page and a form page, plus all the PNG files used to create the graphics for the pages. Both pages meet the specifications of XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2. Aspen also follows the accessibility guidelines for WAI and 508 to provide you with a solid foundation for any design you may wish to use it for.
In addition to the extensively commented XHTML and CSS files, Aspen comes bundled with the following tutorials:
- The Theory of CSS Column Design: Source Order by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
- Clearing Floats, the Easy Way by John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
- Creating Liquid Faux Columns by Zoe Gillenwater
- Styling CSS Buttons (Part 2) by Stephanie Sullivan
- Styling Forms: Fieldset and Legend by Stephanie Sullivan
- Custom Gradients in Fireworks MX by Kim Cavanaugh
- Understanding the Pen Tool by Kim Cavanaugh (video)
- Using Masks in Fireworks MX by Jim Babbage
- CMX Design-time Extension by Paul Boon
Each bundled tutorial explains how to complete the tasks that were undertaken to create the layout. Those techniques that are not covered in the bundle are explained here, providing you with not only a robust template, but a learning tool into the web design process as well.
If you'd like a more detailed description of Aspen, including screenshots, check out the free article Announcing a New CMX JumpStart: Aspen.
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