Ray,
Do yourself a favor. Check out sites on structural or semantic HTML. The
idea being that HTML gives our content strucure and when you use the correct
structure for your content (ie, tables for tabular data, H1...H5 for
headings, lists for menus and other grouping of related items, fieldset and
labels for forms, that these items give your site semantic meaning as well.
Try this, get rid of your style sheets entirely for a moment and view your
site. Ask yourself these questions?
Can I understand the page without any external visual references?
Does the page flow well?
Can I "get" how items are related to each other?
The other benefit to structural HTML is that your tags are then "hooks" to
attach your CSS to. I have found that structural HTML makes it much easier
for me to design CSS style sheets for rather than starting visually and
making my HTML structure fit my CSS.
I still use tables for tabular data. Heck, I even taught how to style
tables in one of my talks at CFUNITED 06. Tables for tabular data are
perfect, just remember to use proper HTML structure in them <thead> for
headers
<tfoot> for footers
<tbody> for the body, <colgroup> and <col> to designate columns and their
widths,
<th scope="cols"> for headers to relate your headers to your columns.
Sandy Clark
4 Days Hands on CSS Class 11/29 - 12/2 Rockville, MD
Held at Teratech
http://www.teratech.com/training/oc_classes.cfm#CS201H
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:33 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CSS table-type layout
All right, if Dave says use tables, then I'm using tables. :)
Seriously, this is the way that I was leaning, and since I've written the
email, I already have the page written in tables. I'm so much faster at
that than css, just wanted to make sure that I was sane in my reasoning to
use tables here. It was easy to fall back on the crutch. :)
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