Rick Faircloth wrote:
Hi, all...
I have used tables for many years as my primary design structure.
I've used CSS to tweak the design of the tables, and the cells,
forms, etc., in the tables.
Now I'm considering converting to using CSS as my primary design
structure.
Hello Rick,
For me the decision was after a job doing UI consistency on a 9000 page
website developed by about 400 different people all with their own
kingdoms to build. I used to dream about CSS solving so many issues.
When I started their whole site had 15 lines of CSS in-line for
decoration and nothing else. Each page was another nightmare of mixed
content, structure, behaviour and presentation. Just tracking it was
almost impossible. Worse they had a mix of datbase driven content with
hard-coded content.
For me the key was the separation of structure, content, presentation
and behaviour. I build database driven websites in either PHP or ASP and
I would like to keep my XHTML code as clean and neat as possible.
Keeping a clean structure with content well encapsulated allows for the
presentation and layout to be flexible. The ability to offer a client a
new look site at the drop of the (CSS) hat is truly powerful. One does
not have to slice and dice images to fit into tables and then change
every table to rearrange the site.
For multilingual sites CSS is imperative especially when wanting to
change from ltr presentation to rtl. More and more website specifiers
will realise that the greatest accessibility issue is not old browsers
or PDA's or readers but allowing accesses by those who speak a different
language.
Rob
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