CENTER COLUMN CONTENT

This template concept produces a page that loads quickly and the internal arrangement helps to optimize its ranking in search engines. The internal arrangement puts the content before any menus. Much more needs to be done to improve its looks but the basic concept holds.
www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlayouts

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>3 columns, liquid width, left rail tallest</title>
<style type="text/css">
body{
	margin:0 100px;
	padding:0 200px 0 150px;
}
#container{
	background-color:#9cc;
	float:left;
	width:100%;	
	border-left:150px solid #cf9; /* The width and color of the left rail */
	border-right:200px solid #c33; /* The width and color of the right rail */
	margin-left:-150px;
	margin-right:-200px;
	display:inline; /* So IE plays nice */
}
#leftRail{
	float:left;
	width:150px;
	margin-left:-150px;
	position:relative;
}
#center{
	float:left;
	width:100%;
	margin-right:-100%;
}
#rightRail{
	float:right;
	width:200px;
	margin-right:-200px;
	position:relative;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
	<div id="container">
		<div id="center">CENTER COLUMN CONTENT</div>
		<div id="leftRail">LEFT<br /> RAIL</div>
		<div id="rightRail">RIGHT RAIL</div>
	</div>
</body>
</html>
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LEFT RAIL

RIGHT RAIL