This month in the Web Design Design Gallery I received a number of submissions that were written with tables for layout. Now, I feel that professional designers should be working hard to move away from tables for layout and move to more flexible and accessible CSS. But the reality is that you can build nice looking sites with tables - and you can build spectacularly ugly ones with CSS. The technology/language you use doesn't guarantee that you'll have a beautiful site. That takes some design aesthetics as well. Some of the featured sites are written with CSS for layout, but some are written with tables.
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I like your web site gallery, there are some nice web designs there.
I’m trying to learn how to use this web site builder called Drupal. I’ve already begun building my website with it, so hopefully when I learn how to make my own theme for it, I can submit my site in your gallery.
I like reading your blog, keep up the good posts.
Thanks,
-Focale2
It’s true that one can use tables for layout – in fact, folks who have been making web sites since the 1990’s got a start that way.
Tables are used to represent tabular data, however. Given that IE8 (beta) and Firefox are standard compliant browsers, it’s probably better to use CSS for layout and HTML to meaningfully structure content.