Good web design practice with HTML & CSS

[jimjiminyjimjim]

I've read many tutorials on web design and have come across many different ways to create websites - but I was just wandering how people would go about designing this site from a best practices point of view and was interested to know peoples thoughts.

Please see JPEG attached.

I plan on making the content not scalable.

Would you create a single background image in a page sized div and then have absolute divs for placing the information over the top.

Or would you slice the images up and place them in divs/tables?

There is the issue of a drop shadow around the edge (not my design) - would it be worth looking into 9 slice scaling?

I'm a graphic designer and my first thought is to have a single background image and then have all the content in absolute divs over the top - would there be issues with this method.

Just wandering what the standard conventions and preferences might be.

Thanks for any input.

[designmaster]

I would prefer slicing the images up and placing them in tables.

[celicasaur]

The problem with absolute divs for everything will be that the divs will appear in slightly offset locations, depending on the resolution and the browser etc. It might not seem like it on your own monitor as you'll be tailoring the site to your set up, but one of your potential users may end up seeing a total mess.

General rule of thumb would be to minimise moving around objects around via the position: relative; command, but if you must move things and there's no other way, use this command and do not use position: absulute; command.

That's my view on it anyway...