This chapter ties all the others together. It takes the layout, stylistic, coding, and graphical elements – not to mention the special effects – and wraps them together by showcasing six layouts and analyzing both the artistic and scripting components.

Hedges shows us how to blend background images with a dynamic foreground. Radio Zen breaks my horizontal scrolling pet peeve, but uses my favorite nifty CSS trick in a sweet way – the fixed background image. South of the Border shows how to trap content properly (and with slick hacks) in fixed and fluid layouts. Corporate ZenWorks is just a damn nifty idea. Open Window once again makes me shake my fist at Internet Explorer. Otherwise, the extreme re-ordering of data and content earns the thumbs-up. Mnemonic is all about choice and how a small one can completely change the design of a site.

All in all, this book was far more helpful than the reference text. I am now fully armed against the dreaded auto-suck.