Web standards, man's worst friend?

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In recent years, there has been talk of 'new web standards'... standards intended to keep the web structured and pages 'well-formatted'. I have been working in the web design and site development field for close to five years now, and possibly it’s the "you cannot teach an old dog new tricks" quandary, but in my view, these 'web standards" people should just let designers get on with their work and not have to learn ream upon ream of 'new standards' every five seconds!

When I started designing web-sites, I used picture layouts. I literally went into my trusted CorelDraw 9 and set out my images neatly then just exported the file to html, uploaded to the web and presto... fresh website!

As time passed though, and I got deeper into it, so countless structures involved in design started popping up, css, tags, xhtml, utf-8, unicode....and the list goes on....forever! It was mind boggling, although I suppose, somebody had to read about it, and in view of the fact that it was my bread and butter....that somebody was me. Accordingly I read it. I stuck to using tables for my design and for years now I have finished beautiful sites with those very html tables with no issues. be it in terms of SEO, or presentation.

After that , everybody is pushing me to employ CSS and div and lists... bah! I have tried to do easy layout with those things and I can inform you, it is actually a specialty on its own! You might get it right and smile smugly at your handiwork....until you open the same work in a different browser and the whole thing looks a hodge-podge mish-mash of lines and boxes and misplaced text and images!

You see, just about every month, someone out there gets the brilliant idea to launch a new internet browser, and while he is doing that, Microsoft, Firefox, Apple Google and every other big player also decides to include 'new features' to their already existing browsers... .It’s all part of this so called "browser wars"... ... never ending upgrades.

Anyway, since there are so many browsers on the market, and each one makes use of its own standards, designing a web page to look the same in all of them is impossible....ESPECIALLY if you use CSS and divs.

My solution? Utilize the good old trusted tables. You can't go wrong with that chunky chum. Setting up a design is a five minute affair. Centering it is a matter of editing one tag... and the rest is history. With Divs and CSS....it is a serious mission, analogous to the 'Mission to Mars'! You just cannot be confident what you put together in CSS/Divs will work because you will never be able to test for all browsers.

As a result, web standard compliant or not, I for one will stick to a tried and tested formula... tables. Am I alone on this? Not likely!

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3Way Marketing specializes in Search Engine Optimization and operate from Gauteng, South Africa.

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