Please, Debby, not again tables vs CSS! http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=TablesVsDivs
As to your questions: - You sell your knowledge to the client, if we always did the same sites that the clients showed us, we'd be stuck in 1997 until now. The client does not care what you use, as long as it looks the same as he wants it or you can show him why it shouldn't look that way. If you keep shtum about NOT using tables you can easily sell him a redesign that takes you two hours and charge him 10 later on. - A lot of sites used tables as they are either old (never change a running system), consciously made a decision to support really old browsers (Netscape4) or use systems that have been developed during the times when table layouts were the one and only means of developing multi column layouts (older CMS / WYSIWYG editors) - the designing in photoshop and cutting the site up to put it in a table again (which actually Image Ready can do for you) is a really old school approach to web design that makes a lot of assumptions about the content of the web site. What if the amount of menu elements changes? What if there is another language version and the Finnish or German menu doesn't fit the same space as the English one? You are much safer going the other way around - properly structured content with a clever IA and much space for growth and the site can become a lot more flexible for changing needs of your client - and they will change their mind! - If you are not planning to use one big table for layout then you might as well not use tables at all. Tables are IMHO only necessary when your design is overly unforgiving and treats the screen like an image rather than a display. Check out "Bulletproof Web Design" by Dan Cederholm when you go to the bookstore next time. It is a very very very good book on that whole subject. -- Chris Heilmann Book: http://www.beginningjavascript.com Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
