Doctor Oak
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Ahh, the fabled battle of the top-two duo of Web design. On one corner you have CSS Design - one implimented in a more accurate sense of design and one that's easily customisable at that.
In the other you have the more widely used, more comptable and more easy to code tabular design.
Both have their big faults and benefits of course. Table design's biggest one being that it's simple to throw together and does the job - in all browsers 99% accurate to the design. CSS, however, is more professional feeling when done right and fully customisable at any time. On the other hand, Tabular design does have it's faults and is not the ideal solution to web-design. Whilst CSS design throws up incompatabilty problems largely due to IE's pathetic backwardness.
What is the most used by webmasters here and what are your opinions on either/both?
My own are that Pokecharms is currently a tabular design site with CSS used pretty much solely for the basic colour-scheme at present. The main reason for this was A) Getting the damn layout finished and operational after farting about for months desigining one and B) the fact I couldn't be arsed fiddling around trying to fix incompatability issues for months afterwards.
With big changes to the site over the summer though, a new layout calls and a further push towards CSS Design comes. Just how far that push is and what it's result will be will remain to be seen I guess.
Excuse the possible crappy nature of this post BTW - i'm tired and not getting any sleep recently. It's not too good for your writing skills. ^^
In the other you have the more widely used, more comptable and more easy to code tabular design.
Both have their big faults and benefits of course. Table design's biggest one being that it's simple to throw together and does the job - in all browsers 99% accurate to the design. CSS, however, is more professional feeling when done right and fully customisable at any time. On the other hand, Tabular design does have it's faults and is not the ideal solution to web-design. Whilst CSS design throws up incompatabilty problems largely due to IE's pathetic backwardness.
What is the most used by webmasters here and what are your opinions on either/both?
My own are that Pokecharms is currently a tabular design site with CSS used pretty much solely for the basic colour-scheme at present. The main reason for this was A) Getting the damn layout finished and operational after farting about for months desigining one and B) the fact I couldn't be arsed fiddling around trying to fix incompatability issues for months afterwards.
With big changes to the site over the summer though, a new layout calls and a further push towards CSS Design comes. Just how far that push is and what it's result will be will remain to be seen I guess.
Excuse the possible crappy nature of this post BTW - i'm tired and not getting any sleep recently. It's not too good for your writing skills. ^^
) I set up a new website for the school-owned computer shop without a single table! All it needs now is content, and I'm not taking the class next year. Fortunately, I set it up so the next classes shouldn't have much trouble with it.