simple web design question

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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hi guys,

i have been messing around with some basic web designs and have mostly used tables to arrange my site layouts... i think there should be a better way of doing the layout control however.. would anyone have any recommendations? Perhaps I should define my table properties inside a css file instead of using the internal dreamweaver table properties tabs?

Hopefully someone can advise me..

thanks jon
 
Best thing to do is not use tables and make the site using a css style sheet, I'm new to this though and I'm still learning as I used to make everything in tables but once you get your head round css it makes life easy. www.w3schools.com has some good tutorials, I also downloaded a website template from www.oswd.org and had a play about with it to get an understanding of how it all works.
 
to be honest. sometimes tables are good. I've found that sometimes divs don't expand properly on firefox, so you have to specify height .. and then it renders properly. But that leads to problems when you want to change content.

For auto expanding I prefer tables. For definitive layout the css/div method is lighter weight.
 
DIV's expand fine. Give them a percentage width.

You shouldn't be using tables to structure any part of your website apart from tabular data within your content.
 
don't worry mate Div's for layout are just a fad, within the next year we'll all be back on to tables , adding splash pages and slapping as much flash as we can on a websites.
 
That's what they said when we dropped frames.

4 years later, they're still banned from any decent developers toolbox. ;)
 
iCraig said:
That's what they said when we dropped frames.

4 years later, they're still banned from any decent developers toolbox. ;)
Click to expand...

they still seem to teach it in 1st year uni courses though :o

Can remember a while back at uni we even got an assignment to create a specific design using frames which we'd been tought lol, i decided to be clever and do it all in css etc. turns out I "missed the point in the assignment" and got a lowish mark, the loons
 
I remember watching my college tutor 'code' HTML for us, to show how it worked.

Code: 
<font size=10 style=blue weight=bold>this is size 10 blue bold text</font>

Sigh..
 
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