Welcome to Evoblution, my second template for the open web design community of OWD / OSWD. The template was hand-coded in xhtml and css, and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0. Additionally, it has been tested in the latest versions of Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer.

inspirations

While I coded this template from scratch, I would have to credit the Blue Tranquility and Blue Tranquility 2 templates as a major source of inspiration for this design, as well as some very useful tips. There are a number of elements in this template which are borrowed in some way from the examples of many designers, more in terms of form than actual code, but I wish to thank all the great designers here at OSWD and elsewhere who strive to create attractive and standards-compliant designs

scope

This template uses an alternate stylesheet for a print-friendly layout, although it less sophisticated than it perhaps could be. I haven't focused on accessibility very much, but I hope to get around to that when I have a bit more time, as I believe it is good policy (and a good habit to acquire).

general

This template is offered to the community free of charge and without restriction, except for the following: if you sell this template without significant modification, you are asked to credit me for it. That is all.

image use

The main header image was created by myself, using some historic photographs in the public domain as the original sources of the lighthouse and the ship. It is an original work of art, and I release it under general terms of the Creative Commons license- basically, you are free to do with it as you wish, but you should not sell it or claim it as your own work. Credit for the work is common courtesy, but optional.

general comments

This template is a flexible layout, and will expand well up to 1800 pixels, after which point the header image will not fill the space allocated for it - this will take care of the vast majority of users, and the design will still look fine on larger screens.

The xhtml is commented fairly well, and the structural design lends well to easy modification. Additionally, the stylesheets provided are not exceptionally complicated, but are complete enough to ensure consistent display in the vast majority of web browsers (note that I did not make an effort to design for antiquated browsers- if people are still using IE3, they can deal with whatever they get - to the best of my knowledge, however, this design degrades well).

The stylesheets are not heavily commented, but the markup should be fairly easy to understand. Please note that an effort was made to avoid using ugly hacks to fix IE's disgusting and pathetic (inexcusable, really) css support, especially the box model. This means, be careful of adding any padding to block-level elements, as this can cause IE to rear its ugly head on the design.

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Latitude does not work in the same way (latitude carries consistent physical characteristics of earth/sun relationship and definite position related to physical points around which the earth spins - it gets a bit more complicated to discuss polar drift, etc- so I won't even try).

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