Posted by Andy Dingley on 02/27/07 10:51

On 27 Feb, 02:49, "Roy A." <royarnes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> why are you putting <div class="amazon"> before the main content.

Simplifies the use of float.

> Why is it more important to read the "ad"
> before the real content?

It isn't. But placing it afterwards in a linearised sequence means
pushing it around more with the CSS, and that assumes either more CSS
skill, or using less understandable "magic" code borrowed from
somewhere else. It's a valid point, but it's a very minor one.

Personally I'd probably do this by using the well-known 3 column
example from bluerobot. This is pretty complicated though and uses
really obscure techniques to work around pathological resizing issues
that are only of very rare interest. I wouldn't suggest it to the OP
in this case.

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