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1. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
garywpaul Oct 4, 2009 6:18 AM (in response to Natalizza)I hope you are not paying for this guy to teach you.... Tables were state of the art 10 years ago? With <div> tags you have much greater flexability,and far better control of the layout of your site. While tables are useful for certain aspects and a design completely of tables is not the end of the world, if you hope to do anything more than build your family x-mas album site, start learning html and CSS.
As far as div tags being more complicated and time consuming, its not rocket scientry, your typing numbers letters and charactors in a correct order, is that really that far advanced? Well, perhaps for this teacher it is. I would see if you can get your money back.
Gary
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2. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
Natalizza Oct 4, 2009 6:49 AM (in response to garywpaul)Well, the company I am working for is paying the money. I don't think they'll see the money back.
I guess the guy worked with tables all his life and it seems he doesn't like the transition to divs too much. I thought I would do more research before following his advice for my pages layout.
Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion Gary
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3. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
garywpaul Oct 4, 2009 6:58 AM (in response to Natalizza)Most of what I learned was from following boards like this. You will find alot of questions that start of with "I am a total noobie so....", so you have plenty of company.
If you run into an issue, post a question, post a link to the page in question, and chances are you will get your answer pretty quick. And while my answer was somewhat acidic, I think you will find anyone that creates web pages for money or employment will agree, tables are very limited in there usefulness in design.
Gary
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4. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
Nadia-P Oct 4, 2009 7:22 AM (in response to Natalizza)I now use div layouts, but I really didn't mind using tables either :-)
There is a series of tutorials at the Adobe site that start you off using CSS and divs for layout - it may be worth going through them - and you don't even need to pay someone to teach you :-)
Creating your first website (series)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS42d4a1c0291fbe4e59147ede1232ff9686c-8 000.html
This is a good one too (from memory #8)
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/index.htm
LIST OF OTHER CSS TUTORIALS ON ADOBE SITE:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/css.html
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5. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
Stephen Nor Oct 4, 2009 8:39 AM (in response to Natalizza)Hi
HTML 4.01 Specification says:
"Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout document content as this may present problems when rendering to non-visual media. Additionally, when used with graphics, these tables may force users to scroll horizontally to view a table designed on a system with a larger display. To minimize these problems, authors should use style sheets to control layout rather than tables"So best pratice is to use table for tabular data and div (or css direct on elements) for layout.
On the other side, to many div's is Div Mania and not good pratice.
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6. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
Natalizza Oct 4, 2009 11:05 AM (in response to Stephen Nor)Thank you all for your time, advice and helpful links. I greatly appreciate it. While in the classes, I knew there was something wrong about insisting in using tables only for a page layout. The guy said he spent about one hour in working with a Div tag, so he'd rather use tables...
Anyway, thanks again. You helped me a lot.
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7. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
Nancy O. Oct 4, 2009 11:11 AM (in response to Natalizza)Tables had their place 10 years ago. But modern web standards have made many advancements since then. Back in the old days, if a client asked for a new look to their table-based web site it literally took weeks of tedious, line-by-line re-coding of table rows and cells to achieve desired results. Now with CSS based layouts, I can give a site a whole new look in a few hours.
The following tutorial is must reading for you and your "Instructor." It describes the main differences between tables and CSS and plainly illustrates the value and efficiency of keeping content (html) separate from appearance (CSS).
From Tables to CSS Web Design Part 1 -
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/table_to_css_pt1.htmlFrom Tables to CSS Web Design Part 2 -
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/table_to_css_pt2.htmlGood luck with your projects,
Nancy O.
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8. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
Natalizza Oct 4, 2009 12:10 PM (in response to Nancy O.)Thank you so much for the tutorials. I have a lot to read and put in practice.
Take Care,
Natalia
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9. Re: What would be the best when building a site - Divs or Tables?
Nadia-P Oct 5, 2009 1:49 AM (in response to Natalizza)Marking as assumed answered




