i just wanted to mention that my columnar css-only design preceded the browser upgrade campaign by about 3 months. waaay ahead of the zeitgeist. (but, as you will notice, with my friday night post, i am also without a life). for those just starting on css design, the css.nu pointers page is a good start.
the ala article has some neat workarounds for non-compliant browsers (the @import and css2 selectors are nice hacks – wait, didn’t they say they were gonna stop doing that?), but those looking for a better explanation of using floats to create columns, there’s a webreference tutorial on it.
while on the issue, i guess i’ve sorta figured out my apprehension at the whole upgrade campaign dealio. yes it’s a good thing, but the javascript forewarding is moronic. 1) 20%+ people have javascript disabled, 2)many of the people you’re targeting won’t have javascript anyway. the top of the page css-hidden warning is much better. i use a server-side one. oh, and for people who get stupid user-agent redirects, try proxomitron, a great tool.
um yeah, summarizing:
separating presentation from content == good
javascript auto-forwarding == really really moronic.