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Look Mom, No Tables! Thursday July 29th

If you’re still using HTML table to make your web page layouts, you should start looking more into CSS. Douglas Bowman article “Throwing Tables Out the Window” talks about the benefits of using CSS over HTML Tables on one of Microsoft’s web page.

Here’s the introduction of his article :

With the CSS waters thoroughly tested by many sites that have taken the plunge, it’s time for us to start cheering from the water below, coaxing and encouraging those who haven’t yet jumped in, to make that jump. There’s no longer any reason to use tables for layout, nor …

Can Your Site Survive Firefox?

Yesterday I talked about the browser FireFox as a user point of view, but what about the Web Designers? Cross-browser compatibility isn’t a think from the past and the popularity of FireFox will probably make you sweat a bit more :-) .

Here’s a quote from Brian Livingston’s article “Can Your Site Survive Firefox?” :

…you shouldn’t let IE’s current dominance lull you into testing your site’s compatibility only with that one browser. Even one of Firefox’s harshest critics, Michael Horowitz, says the new browser will get big fast. “I would think at least 10 percent” of Web surfers will be using …