Just how far have you taken these familiar elements when developing a new personal or client website? And we’re talking about sections here, not the design. One guy worked with the bare minimum of:
• a short stylesheet
• header
• menu
• content
• sub-section
• footer
• no hacks
..and turned them into a bunch of fluid layouts.
TKJDesign pulled it of and introduced a number of 8 fluid layouts in his One clean HTML markup, many layouts…
From the layouts he’s made, I found it really distinguishing when you try comparing a table made layout. I’ve noticed that if you these layouts were done in tables, we’ll find it a big problem moving elements around.
So the biggest advantage in terms of layout wise when I compare CSS and tables here:
You can freely manipulate the position of your content anywhere.
If it was done in tables, you’ll have to merge and split or create a nested table within the main table to house your content.
That’s why I believe TJKDesign’s flexible markup examples is worth taking a look.
There’s one more point that I think not many would realise, what you see in (X)HTML tables *is* actually CSS. :-)
erm.. am i the only one who thinks that this guy’s article is nothing new?