Template Details: Life On Mars

Striking, Eye-Catching Design

Life On Mars features a great retouched photo taken in Peru at 16,000 feet, giving the template an other-worldly look. The two-column layout is simple to work with, and the generic nature of the design makes it good for any type of site or blog.

The template's fixed-width layout centres the 761-pixel-wide page body in the browser window. This ensures that the design looks consistent across all screen sizes.

Easy to Edit

All the text on the page is simply HTML text, so you don't need a graphics editor to change the headings or menu for example. Just open the page up in your favourite Web page editor (FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc.), select the old text and replace it with your own.

It's easy to slot in your own logo or other heading image/text into the page header, replacing the generic HTML "life on mars" site title.

The template's HTML code was built by hand to ensure maximum compatibility across Web browsers and editors, and is well laid-out and fully commented for ease of maintenance.

Fully Web Standards Compliant

Life On Mars uses CSS positioning for layout and conforms to the XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS level 2 W3C standards. This ensures a high level of compatibility with today's and tomorrow's browsers.

Lots of Room for Content

The PageKit features a large content area below the page header and menu, formatted as 2 columns. The right "sidebar" column is useful for site highlights, news headlines, etc.

By devoting such a large area of the page to content, the design is very flexible. It can take almost any type of site content while still looking good.

All the content boxes are stretchable vertically, ensuring that they will accommodate as much content as you can throw at them.

Fast Load Time

The estimated load time of the home page on a 56K modem is 12 seconds. The page is built using CSS positioning rather than a tables-based layout, which results in a much faster and smoother load of the page, and better compatibility with modern browsers. It also improves accessibility, enhancing the browsing experience for text-only browsers and screen readers.

Tested Browsers

This template has been tested and is guaranteed to work with the following Web browsers. Other browsers will probably work fine too - they just haven't been tested with this template.

Windows Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8 Firefox 3.5 Opera 10

Mac OS Safari 4.0 Firefox 3.5 Opera 10

Linux Firefox 3.5 Opera 10

Fonts Used

Life On Mars uses Arial for the headings and menu and Verdana for all other text in the page. These fonts usually come as standard on PC and Mac systems.

Files Included

• Source PSD files including all the graphics used to build the templates, editable in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, etc.

• HTML files for main page and sub page, editable in FrontPage, Dreamweaver or any other Web page editor or text editor.

• All images for the template, optimised for fast downloading.

• CSS style sheet controlling layout, text appearance, colours, etc, editable in any Web page editor or text editor.

Need More Info?

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