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Tables vs Tableless layouts?

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03-04-2005, 02:56 PM
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I'll offer one of my recent sites as a good example - www.contemplate.us - there are a few broken pages if you go beyond page 2,460.

As another example I'll offer my portfolio site - www.yournewdesigner.com - this was my first attempt at CSS layout so the coding leaves a little to be desired... It all validates but I've still got javascript rollovers and the coding is not great with all the nested divs going on.

In 2 weeks I'll have completed my 4th CSS project - this time for a client - hopefully this will serve as an excellent example of tableless, accessible design.

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I've always used greatly heavy tabling. It gives definition, points and meaning to every section of the page. Its not hard to read Tabled Code and it allows for more stuff in the page. Short of WebParts you won't get much more in. CSS works great in Tabled Systems too

03-04-2005, 08:23 PM
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heavy tabling has to be the worst kind. even with using tables, you can build a relatively complex design with only a handfull of cells. if you know what you're doing, you should never have to exceed using 1 table, unless it's for interior data like displaying a list of information or a gallery of sorts.

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Lol. I've never quite worked out how to do that I generally have a three Cell Table, for Footer Body and Header, then Content Placeholders in each and Tables in the Contentplaceholders, and often some more then GridViews and DataGrids.

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I am working my way towards learning to code tableless designs, I am diving into my first one pretty soon actually
Tabled code is not too bad, but I agree CSS is alot easier to understand, all the <td>'s floating around everywhere is a mess, and itsnt too good for page loading either.

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Nah. I've always wanted to put the effort into just making a whole load of Divs instead. Just organised and not too many indent. I may for my forum... to cut down on overheads but beyond that I'll probably stay on Tables.

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