Listless Navigation – Using CSS To Do More With Less

By David Walsh on December 13, 2007

I've guest-blogged on Chris Coyier's blog, CSS-Tricks.com.

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Eric Wendelin
A very interesting idea. Now I just have to get enough traffic to my sites to make it worth it…
Dustin Brewer
I have written a response to your article on CSS-Tricks. I hope that you don’t take offense to the article, I only want to clarify the importance of using lists for semantic and accessible markup.
Bill Byrd
It seems impossible to find an example of listless navs with sub-menus. Can you point to any? Thanks