Creating two columns layout - html/css semantics

Question

I want to create a very simple liquid layout with 2 columns - the one to the left will have a fixed width, and the one to the right will be dependent to the window size.

Answer 1

One thing you can look into is using Scaffolding.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html This is from the fluid layout section. While it does not use a fixed span you could use nested containers.