A Designer's Dilemma
I’ve been mulling over the design of xlab for a day or two now and fumbled around in Fireworks last night trying to design a new layout. Soon I was happy with the layout and before I knew it I was up to my eyes in td and tr tags in BBEdit for an hour trying to build the damned thing.
After much fudging and frustration trying to get the tables right, I sat back and made the democratic decision (majority of one) to put down my mouse and pick up a CSS book and instead use this is an opportunity to add some CSS and XHTML strings to my bow.
At work, we still have a requirement to use tables to build pages, mainly due to the still nagging presence of non-standards compliant browsers like Netscape 4, but of course I have no such client constraints here. It’s almost frustrating knowing that you can build pages in a better more usable fashion, but because of browser legacy and responsibilities towards clients you have to maximise your audience by using non-valid code. I wonder when it will be considered a fair time to ignore the older non-compliant browsers and write extensible and valid markup?
Right, better find myself a decent starting point (suggestions welcome..) and get cracking...
Posted 10 years, 6 months ago