Datasheet

Although I recommend that you redesign sites like the one shown in Figure 1-3
with CSS and <div> tags, as you’ll find out how to do in Chapter 6, I do
understand that many designers still find it easier to create layouts with
tables, and not everyone has time to redesign their Web sites right away. I
have to admit, I’ve been guilty of leaving sites online designed with tables
long after I learned better myself. So in the chapter on tables, I show you how
to use Dreamweaver’s features to create a page layout like the one in Figure
1-3, as well as how best to create tables for displaying tabular data like the
content you’d find in a spreadsheet.
Although tables are no longer recommended for page layouts, they are still
considered the best way to format data like the order page from the artist
site shown in Figure 1-4.
Considering frame options
In Chapter 8 you find instructions for creating Web sites that use frames, like
the family site shown in Figure 1-5. Many designers make a face much like the
one my niece is displaying in the photo in Figure 1-5 because they think
Frames are a terrible way to design Web sites.
Figure 1-4:
Tables
are still
considered
the best
way to
display
tabular data
like the
information
on this
order page.
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