Breathe Dan... breathe
Yes, I am still alive, but I've become somewhat of a social butterfly it seems, plus publishers don't think authors have lives :) (can you say major deadline over 4th of July weekend? I can...)
There are some exciting things on the horizon though, including one day getting this damn blog application finished :), as well as a few other super-ultra-hot-damn-top-secret projects that I can't tell you about. NO SECRETS FER YOU!!!
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Tables to Divs
3-Column layouts don't always have to be table based. I had a client who purchased one of the older Project Seven Design Packs, and wanted to update it to load a little quicker and be more standards based.
Take a gander at this Project Seven mod (not sure they're selling this particular DP anymore) I did for RobinChang.com. All of the tables were stripped out and redone with a clean, full <div> layout. I was able to keep the PVII effects intact and it's nearly impossible to tell the difference between this and their original tabular form. And, it validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional of course.
New Dreamweaver Update Available
Macromedia is getting better about releasing updates for their current products (thank goodness) and have just released an update for users who have installed the ASP.NET 1.1 Framework. You can find the update in their support section of Macromedia.com.