tables versus CSS layouts
August 23, 2005
Ok I like to think of myself as a rather newbie when it comes to web design. I have done the odd site for a person here or there but i would not classify myself as an expert. While in my studies to become a better web developer, I keep reading that tables are bad bad bad juju for doing layouts with, use CSS positioning instead. So here I am always doing layouts with div’s and css positioning because i read that was the right thing to do(tm). But as I look at other sites and for idea’s and see how they did a certain layout, everyone and their mother are still using tables. Why is that? is it too much of a pain in the ass (sometimes i think it is) to do it with just straight CSS?
