Originally Posted by TheGooner
But although I’ve read this several times I’ve never made the jump because it seems too much of a hassle to change everything around. HTML Table structures are obvious – CSS doesn’t seem to be.
You are right, it is quite a change, since with CSS layouts the flow of text in your html file is not necesarily how it will appear in your browser. At least with tables you have a pretty good idea in your head how things will look as you add rows and columns.
With css you create “blocks” inside div tags and your style sheet dictates where in the browser that block must be displayed.
Originally Posted by TheGooner
Oh … and search engines don’t give a toss about the cleanliness or quality of the code … HTML ranks just as well as CSS despite what the zealots might think.
I hear you. I’m no seo expert so i trully don’t know for sure. This is the theory though: Using CSS you can place all your important blocks of text near the top of the html page, since the style sheet will make sure it renders correctly anyway. The assumption is that bots/crawlers/spiders may only index the first section of your page. Like I said, i don’t personally have a clue so I have to trust what others have experienced.
Originally Posted by TheGooner
Do you have a few good reference sites that might help us newbies make the changes ?
I used the following sites to get started(remove the x)
httpx://glish.com/css/
httpx://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
Also, WordPress templates are a good example of CSS layouts as well.