I remember spending ages on various ways to implement "the golden layout" or whatever it was called. Edit: Holy Grail. One header on top, then three columns, and then a footer. And the middle of the three columns should scale with screen width and screen height, such that the rightmost column was at the edge, and the footer was at the bottom of the screen if content was less than screen height.

And then a-list-aparts "faux columns" to make the columns seem to have the same height.

Edit: It was the "Holy Grail" it was named https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_grail_(web_design) So hard to do that it even has its own Wikipedia page, heh