Simple Page Structure  -  March 20, 2008

Web design has come along quite a lot in the past 6 / 7 years. In the past there was very little consideration for web standards and methods of constructing pages were very different.

You may still see it now when you look round the internet but many people used to use tables to lay out there websites. Before Css became standard tables provided a way of setting out the layout of your website and it positioned elements on you page. For me personally i found it all quite confusing and frustrating but if you worked at it long enough it worked.

However thankfully our techniques developed into the expected standards we have today. As you may know we now use Div tags and Css for positioning elements on the page. We have now done this because tables were only ever really designed to display table elements on the page and not be relied on for positioning the whole page.

With Divs and Css the freedom and power you have to design more freely is clear to see with the appearance of better designed and better looking websites. A Div tag can be manipulated in many ways to create your design and with the imminent arrival of Css 3 this is only set to get better.

Divs are the standard that has been set out by web standard authorities as they provide cleaner slick code than tables ever did which in return provides smaller file sizes and quicker download speeds.

Gary at 6:24 pm

1 Comment

  1. this is a nice consept and the disning also nice. i think u r company go to hyyyyyyyyyyyyyy stage all the best

    Comment by mahesh April 2, 2008 @ 1:13 pm

Leave a comment