help...probably simple

[dyers78]

I want to redesign my home page which is left justified. I want to make the home page fluid... much like the yahoo home page and many others. I'm not ready for the CSS leap yet. Can you suggest some simple methods or is CSS the way to go?

[Ryan8720]

CSS is the way to go. You could use tables, but they are archaic and frowned upon by the Web community.

[xplod_ldg]

Learn CSS.

[Emmanize]

Yeah learn CSS. But I warn you, to do a site like the yahoo one at first won’t be simple lol. Mind you, i dunno you might find it simple its probably me just useless with divs and css lol. Tables are easier but you’re not always looked at as a pro when you use tables. I often just think "I would have had this done by now had I have used tables". It’s a thought you have to resist though.

[Noonan]

much like a lens flare or drop shadow text, tables aren't 100% wrong, but because they are so overused and usually in the wrong way a lot of web designers don't like them.

I'd reccomend learning css and if a table makes sense than use them sparingly

[tZ]

tables are for tabular data.

HTML is soly based on presntation while XML is based on structure. Combining the two the is called XHTML. XHTML is structured and sematnic mark-up. Everything within the code should have meaning.

Tables were designed to layout tabular data. In the old days before XHTML people used tables as a hack to design. However, using tables to design/layout is wrong. Using tables to layout a web site negativly affects useability and accessability. For that sole reason they should not be used out of thier origional designed context in this day and age.

Before, yeah it was allright becasue we didn't have technologies such as CSS to design our layout. However, now with the emergence of all this new technologies it is best to design using XHTML then it is to use HTML methods. Thats the basic run down of the "debate".

XHTML is also a stricter language then html.

I would recommend learning XHTML and CSS.

[nyc_skater]

HTML is soy based

Really? ;)

I would use frames, and for layout, slice up the entire thing in photoshop. and make at least 8000 picels wide for large monitors.

[JPnyc]

I want to redesign my home page which is left justified. I want to make the home page fluid... much like the yahoo home page and many others. I'm not ready for the CSS leap yet. Can you suggest some simple methods or is CSS the way to go?
CSS still doesn't lend itself well to expandable fluid designs. Yes, it's possible to do them but it's much harder than using a table. If you're not experienced and you're under any time contraints at all, you'd probably be better off using a table. That's often done in the real world anyway, when you need such a design and you need it in 10 minutes.

The rigid views of the web's "code-nazi" community is fine when you're working for yourself or have a lenient deadline, but when the site is down and the co. is losing revenue because of it, your boss won't wanna wait while you position floats and set margins/padding.

[tZ]

you didn't know that?

Everyone knows html is soy based- duh!,lol

[dyers78]

Thanks, I will learn CSS in due time but it's not going to happen by the end of the week when this has to be done.