Interesting suggestions. I've partially completed the general layout of my website, which I'm using to experiment with this. I will upload it to my website when I've finished off a few details (the 'experimental' website currently uploaded is an older, now obsolete version). As it is now, the page will scale to fit the window, which fits my first goal. It is so far written entirely in standards-compliant XHTML Strict and CSS, with very little markup. It will be fully customisable with interchangeable stylesheets, which meets my second goal.

However, I'm currently facing a problem with my third goal: cross-browser compatibility. Besides a few IE glitches which will be corrected with an ie-only stylesheet overriding some of the standard stylesheet, only one major problem remains: the alpha transparency mentioned in another thread (General Discussion >> India will beat China by 2025). Internet Explorer remains a problem, displaying an ugly silver background behind semitransparent images. This should be fixed with a PHP script described at Koivi.com in the article "Normal display of PNG Alpha Transparency with MSIE" (http://www.koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/).