Tables and Stylesheets
I just finished drawing a new layout that I’m going to offer here on Radkitten. I plan to offer it both as a layout and as a Wordpress theme. Because I plan to offer it as a Wordpress theme, I thought coding it in CSS/divs may be a better solution, but it would be extremely time consuming considering I don’t know them well enough yet.
I did a search on Google to see if tables were still acceptable for layouts. It didn’t take me long to find many sites on the argument, most of which stated the obvious: “Tables offer precision that divs cannot.” I considered also making the layout usable on XMB, in which case tables would definitely be necessary. And I thought back to that layout my friend needed help with for MTV and they had requested it be done in tables.
So I decided, in the end, I would code the layout in tables. Not only that, I would continue to use CSS as I always had for text formatting and colors. I think it’s the best way to go for now. When I get more into Wordpress I may feel it needs to be recoded, but for the main layout that will be released in the next day or so, it will be tables.
Feel free to tell me what you think.
I was reluctant to move from creating layouts using tables to creating tables using strictly CSS, simply because I was very familiar with tables and didn’t want to let go.
August 13th, 2007 at 1:02 amBut a few months ago I forced myself to make the switch. Honestly, for what I want to do, I have found that with a bit of tinkering, I can make CSS do what tables do, down to the very last, precise pixel.
P.S. To add: the great thing about styling exclusively with CSS is that when I want to tweak and modify layouts, I don’t have to mess with much coding in the .html documents; I only need to worry about the stylesheet!
August 13th, 2007 at 1:02 amI get ya, but this isn’t my layout.
This is a free one I’m offering, so that doesn’t really apply.
I know how to do it with divs, I’ve done it a couple of times (like on PJ Mommy). But I just don’t think it’s worth the trouble for this.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:57 amAwesome
I wish I knew how to code WP themes. I’ve had a few business ideas, but only if I knew how. I think your theme looks great. It’s nice, simple, and the color scheme has that “friendly” feel to it. Keep up the hard work!
-Gregg
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:48 pmTables and Stylesheets
Help me decide whether to offer my free layouts in CSS+Divs or CSS+Tables.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:29 pmI think it would probably be more benificial to offer then with just divs and floats. If you use tables, then there are probably a few people you’ll scare away using it because of that, plus those who do, then will think it’s ok to use tables to structure a layout if they don’t know any better, and we don’t want that :p
November 9th, 2007 at 3:02 pm