Percentage-relative vs em-relative layouts and Sands

By Samat Jain
May 30, 2006 - 8:25pm

I’ve outlined some of the design decisions I made when designing Sands, including why some links are black, the use of a em-relative layout, and why I think they are more usable, in a post on Drupal’s forums: Any theme with high usability?

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