Taken from the maxdesign − Floatutorial – Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.
Taken from Stu Nicholls' CSSplay site…
Layout 1 – Cross browser fixed header/footer layout. One column, no left/right navigation. A detailed tutorial on how it works can be found
here.
Layout 2 – Full width and height. Fixed header, footer and left navigation. For the bare essentials look
here.
Layout 3 – Ditto with content only scrollbar. Essentials
here.
Layout 4 – Full height, fixed header and footer, multiple scrolling columns.
Another example from SELFHTML…
Layout 5 – Fixed header, footer and navigation. The essentials come
here.