Guest Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/12lessonsCSSandstandards An excellent article, not patronising or ordering you to do anything just a good explanation of how to change to standards and CSS based sites Thought it might be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeP Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Tables and CSS are not mutually exclusive - if you have tabular data to display, then the obviuos way to do it is....in a table! Suitable formatted with a Style Sheet! But as for using tables to structure the layout - I moved away from that a year or so ago and CSS makes life SO much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnkysknky Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 A List Apart is a good site - some excellent articles on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Check my blog in my signature, and click on one of the months on the right (July is a good one) looks like a table, but its all totally CSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeP Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 I think one of the problems with CSS and such is that people get rather fetishistic about it, using it when there's an easier way to get the result that is still standards compliant and has no impact on usability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Tables and CSS are not mutually exclusive - if you have tabular data to display, then the obviuos way to do it is....in a table! Suitable formatted with a Style Sheet!) Absolutely. I'd also like to add one link. http://www.csszengarden.com Inspiration, if it were needed, to get into CSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 I think one of the problems with CSS and such is that people get rather fetishistic about it, using it when there's an easier way to get the result that is still standards compliant and has no impact on usability. It's true, there's many ways of doing things Accessibility should also be high on the list of priorities...no that doesn't just mean visually impaired users! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazo Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Check my blog in my signature, and click on one of the months on the right (July is a good one) looks like a table, but its all totally CSS What's the point in that? If you're presenting tabular information then what's wrong with using a table? All that markup is just messy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 seeing all the <table> <tr> <td> blah blah is messy, View my source, then make a page that gives the same result, with tables, and view that source, mines much neater, and tidier, and less confusing to work out, tables, in php, you could miss a </td> or </tr> here and there ( I have seen it before ) where as with CSS using floats its not as easy to miss... and is much easier to customise, just change one div, and the whole lot changes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallonoroff Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 http://www.csszengarden.com Inspiration, if it were needed, to get into CSS Undoubtedly. I'm not a developer, but i love that site. It's amazing to see what can be achieved with CSS. That said, i also understand the point made earlier about CSS-love getting a bit much ("fetishistic" ). . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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