Whilst the layout concept you provide is not complex, it is a time consuming project. Not only will it require being fully built, it will require testing. I suggest rather than offer a miserable...
For the question asked, I would go with BonRouge's method. IE will automatically stretch a fixed height element with an overflow of content. For a more browser compatible method, Mikepurvis has the...
Here you go. If I understood your problem correctly, I haev solved it. The attached document is valid XHTML 1.0 transitional and is tested on IE6.0, Opera 7.0 and Firefox 1.0 (Windows platform only)....
As a whole I would try to keep all my CSS on an external Cascading Style Sheet and avoid nested styles. I say this because it is much easier to keep ontop of all your styles to stay in control of...
I am not 100% sure but I believe Macromedia Contribute 3 is purely acting as a CMS and I wouldn't say it had any major effects on a design or stylesheet.
z-index is a CSS property that comes with positioning such as position: absolute; that sets the order of an element often called the 'stack' order. The greater the number the higher in the stack...
Whilst this is not highly reccomended, it can be done to work in Internet Explorer.
Other browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or Safari can override the web page settings to enlarge text.