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Tables are for eating your meals at and organizing spreadsheets, not for designing websites.

Page Coding (XHTML and CSS)

Websites that still use tables have something in common with websites created in the 1990's - they both have tons of junk markup. If you want a website that loads quickly, looks the same in all of the browsers (past, present, and future), and is a cinch to update, then XHTML semantic markup and CSS stylesheets are two things that you should be using.

The Dark Ages of Web Design

Spreadsheet

In the past, creating a website was much more tedious and time consuming than it is now. A web designer would have to slice their image up into a bunch of tiny squares and put things back together using "tables". Not only did this method of web design create an extraneous amount of junk markup, but it was a pain if the designer wanted to make a change to their website. For example, say you wanted to change the size of the page header on all of the pages in the web site. The designer would have to open each file and make the changes manually so that each title used the new text size. This took forever (probably because tables are for spreadsheets, not web design).

Enter XHTML and CSS

XHTML and CSS page coding

Instead of having the visual information (layout, design, positioning, text sizes, etc) mixed together with the content (body text) of a web page, the content and visual information are separated. The visual information is stored in CSS stylesheets, while the content is stored in an XHTML document (like HTML, but upgraded to be faster, more reliable, and more flexible). Using CSS and XHTML, updating that same page header on all of the pages in your web site is as easy as going into the CSS stylesheet and changing a single number - one time. No more opening up tons of pages and sifting through heaps of junk markup - CSS and XHTML make web design clean, page loading fast, and updating easy.

When designing websites using tables, the designer's creativity is limited due to the constraints of a table-based layout. With CSS, there are no boundaries. The possibilities of a CSS-based design are only limited to the creativity of the designer.

Say "Goodbye" to tables. Say "Hello" to valid XHTML and CSS.

Valid XHTML and CSS page coding

Is your website still using table-based layouts? Chromatic Sites can help. Our web designers and developers will convert your existing table-based design into a clean-coded, valid XHTML and CSS layout. If you're not happy with your current design, then you can be when our professional web design team works with you to create a beautiful website coded entirely in XHTML and CSS.

If you're looking for a web design company that despises table-based design and recognizes the importance of having a standards compliant, optimized, and unique website, then you're the type of client we'd love to work with. Contact us today and let us show those table-based websites what a real website is all about.

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