[UPHPU] Validation

[Peeler, Wade M.]

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Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [UPHPU] Validation

On 6/6/06, Wade Preston Shearer <lists at wadeshearer.com> wrote:
>
> > Phew!  Since I have not had the time to become more proficient with 
> > CSS, I have used Macs tabular format for almost everything.
>
> That's bad.
>
> Tables are not bad; misusing tables is bad... just like misusing any
tag 
> or technology is bad. Tables should not be used for layout. That is 
> not what they were created for. Tables are to organized tabular data 
> or information. Does this mean that they can only be used for text 
> (like a spreadsheet)? No. If you have something like a catalogue or a 
> bunch of profiles with images and text that should be tabular 
> (multiple rows and columns), then use a table... that's what it's for.
> But the skeleton and main structure of your site shouldn't be one 
> giant table. I can't force you to not do this, but I heartily 
> recommend it. You are significantly limiting yourself using tables for

> structure. People need to stop thinking of pages like a flat piece of 
> paper or the whole "slices" thing. If you design by slicing up your 
> layout, they your site is limited and bloated. You need to think two 
> dimensionally... in layers. Don't think of a web page as a "sheet,"
like 
> you would a brochure. Think of as media, like television. Build it 
> with only the blocks you need instead of filling in all of the cells 
> like you were using a spreadsheet.

I mostly just read this list, but I just had to say that following this
thread has been really interesting and I've actually learned quite a
bit.  I'm probably a pretty amatuer web designer compared to the rest of
you (my websites are really just to make it easier for engineers to read
their test results, so they don't have to query the database directly,
so pretty much nothing but tabular data).

Wade Peeler

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