Continuing on my anti-CSS rant – 3 columns, with fixed-width left and right and a fluid center column, are ofter referred to as the ‘holy grail’.
The problem is that this is an obsolete solution, when people increasingly have massive screens where any fluidity breaks the design if people auto-expand windows – which they do.
Mike Golding breaks the mold and argues the case very well for fixed width CSS layout: notestips.com :: The benefits of a fixed width design