[thelist] look and feel compromises

[Julian Rickards]

It sounds to me (I appologise if I am wrong) that you have a design that you
can't create using CSS. I generally recommend using CSS for design and
layout but limited use of table layout may be acceptable. Try to limit the
number of cells and try not to nest a table within a cell: if you can use a
semantic structure within a cell, use it instead of nesting a table.

HTH,

Jules

On 23/10/06, Joel D Canfield <joel at spinhead.com> wrote:
>
> for those of you who create the look and feel of websites and write the
> code as well, how often and to what degree do you find yourself
> compromising the look you wanted because of coding issues?
>
> and I guess for those of you on one side or the other, how strongly do
> you feel about having your design 'modified' for coding reasons, or
> spending more time/effort/whatever coding something so it looks the way
> the designer wanted it to?
>
> I'm in a state of flux right now, and keep envisioning designs I can't
> create without tables and goofy things I'd prefer not to do on my own
> sites. My internal dialog is about whether I settle for a design that's
> not exactly what I want until my skills come up to speed, or leave the
> ugly messes I've currently got until I can do exactly what I want. I'm
> not sure if that's a question or not :)
>
> thanks
>
> joel
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