Recommendations for Good Website Designers

MadCat · 2008-10-09, 10:26 PM

The thing is that using xhtml also means you've got much better control over page layout, and you can use the same page design with a different stylesheet to still render it on a mobile, or for print.

Added benefits are also the fact that a lot of nice UI enhancements can be done with javascript and so on; ajax-based image browsers, etc.

That stuff tends to not work right when in quirks mode

urb · 2008-10-10, 07:01 AM

Funnily enough, I'm a designer....

I can work either way, with tables or css, or both. It depends on the job. It's like, do you use .html or .php extensions on your pages, I think a little variety covers all bases.

I've tested both table sites and css sites on Google and the sites complying with xhtml do a little better, but it's not a majorly significant edge. There are far too many other factors involved.

My main concern is making sure sites work cross platform. But it's only recently that I've seriously looked into dropping tables... perhaps because it's trendy?

"Coded like it's 1999"

I think more people should test sites using IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, etc... the browsers are the main yardstick.

2008-10-10, 07:01 AM	#2
urb All the way from Room 101 Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3,557	Funnily enough, I'm a designer.... I can work either way, with tables or css, or both. It depends on the job. It's like, do you use .html or .php extensions on your pages, I think a little variety covers all bases. I've tested both table sites and css sites on Google and the sites complying with xhtml do a little better, but it's not a majorly significant edge. There are far too many other factors involved. My main concern is making sure sites work cross platform. But it's only recently that I've seriously looked into dropping tables... perhaps because it's trendy? "Coded like it's 1999" I think more people should test sites using IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, etc... the browsers are the main yardstick. __________________

2008-10-09, 10:26 PM	#1
MadCat If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 247	The thing is that using xhtml also means you've got much better control over page layout, and you can use the same page design with a different stylesheet to still render it on a mobile, or for print. Added benefits are also the fact that a lot of nice UI enhancements can be done with javascript and so on; ajax-based image browsers, etc. That stuff tends to not work right when in quirks mode