Throwing Tables Out the Window

I love CSS, have been dabbling in text control using CSS for awhile now. Since most of my projects are designed to reach the mass audience I have refrained from adopting a total CSS approach for web design, until now that is.

For the unfamiliar, CSS or Cascading Style Sheets allow for separated design/layout from content or think of it as allowing the designers to design and the developers to develop separately on the page. The old practice was to build the design and then have the developers hack at the ‘html’ to fit in the functional need on the page afterwards. All modern browsers now have support for CSS to one level or another.

CSS allows for greater control over the look and feel of the pages throughout the entire site, pages should load faster, better for search engine ranking, and offers greater access to individuals with disabilities – people who have sight problems and use a text reader for instance.

I’m excited about this change, although I feel I might just be the last person to know about it at this stage. I’m starting a redesign of farrlandfilms.com this week and plan to use CSS extensively throughout the site and have already used it sparingly on another site while I was upgrading it this last week. Overall I’d say the transition is going smoothly, learning new code is always fun. BTW N2graphics already relies heavily on CSS for the layout, so look out world I’m armed and dangerous.

Excellent article here: Stopdesign | Throwing Tables Out the Window