.shadowbox {
background: #ccc;
position: relative;
top: 2px;
left: 2px;
}
.shadowbox div {
background: #333;
border: 2px solid #000;
color: #fff;
padding: 10px;
position: relative;
top: -2px;
left: -2px;
}
attributed to: silverorange (a very impressive lot with crisp work)
http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2004/january/shadowboxing
I much prefer this method to stacking more divs and images. Did it somewhere to this effect. While tend to stay away from anything that stacks more empty structural markup for purely presentational purposes this trick might fit into the new design.
The faux column trick is another sucky thing that must be done to maintain column length for pages… hate it but what can you do? Perhaps this person has it right. I did not have time to test out his theory in a wider setting so I stuck with what something a bit more mature in terms of layout methods.
So many Windows IE hacks, so little time.