Okay I'd just thought I'd spread the word. I rember vaugely hereing that using tables to make your design is bad but i dind't know why. Now I know, and I'm def. standing by the no tables idea. It saves you bandwidth, makes faster page loads, increases your ranking in search engines, makes it easier to change the design without spending the time going through tables etc...
Here are the reasons in a nice little list and why those reasons exsist:
- Search engines love clean code. And using tables to make your design does not mean clean good code. It is using bad methods. Cleaner code = higher rankings.
- Faster page loads. Simply put tables mean higher load time. Users must download this presentational data for each page they visit, which is not good
- Makes re-desinging the site easier. Re designing is simply put, a hard task if you use tables design. However redesigning is simply put not hard if all you have to change is one.css.
- Table sites will appear blurted and very unorganized, and bad on a thing such as a PDA, or a Cell Phone. Clean code changes this.
Here are some links for more indepth looks on the matter:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/
http://www.codingforums.com/showthre...585#post181585
Now I want to clarify. A thing such as a message board does not apply to this. Tabular data or things such as Records for instance a news script can use tables, that is not bad. Simply using tables for design is bad.
Your opinions on the matter? I may start to make my designs without tables now.