In 2000, the changing shape of the Web browser market (Netscape's switch to a new layout-engine and the dominance of IE 5.x) produced a solid base for CSS layouts.

saila.com solidified its move to fully separate presentation from structure in this design. The site iteself was reshaped to emphasis what the site had become: a resource about online journalism and Web building. As well, sidebars and advertising were common on most pages.

Standard-compliant browsers presented a layout using the XHTML and CSS recommendations, while older browsers rendered the site as it appeared in its previous iteration.

This design implemented what has been called, in 2001, the "holy grail" of style-based design: a three-column, liquid design. This move to a standards-compliant, CSS-based design was done almost nine months before The Web Standards Project's Browser Upgrade campaign began.