tables aren't really eeeevil, are they?

[keryx]

A few weeks ago, I gathered all these pictures I've taken over the past several months in different places we've visited and Photoshopped what I think is a very pretty new vision of my website. It's pretty enough that you can't see it till I'm done. Very simple. Actually, very old-school-me-style meets new-school-me-style, which most of you wouldn't recognize anyhow because the only piece of the site you see on any regular basis is the polkadotted background. No, I'm not yelling at you. It's just LJ.

But I'm struggling again with my own crap CSS knowledge and antipathy towards things that aren't pictures and words. I don't like to write code. I stopped billing myself as a designer precisely because of this fact.

So I have this really pretty picture, and I can make Dreamweaver write standards-compliant code for me and have the base design done in an hour or so, but I can only do that with tables (I'm sure I could get the program to write decent CSS, but I'd have to know CSS a lot better first). And while all my cool designer friends may mock, I'm seriously considering just doing that. It's not like I have any designerly street cred left these days anyhow. I'm thinking fuck it, tables it is. Thanks for the advice.

Comments

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I feel vindicated. :)

[miffyness.livejournal.com]

I would rather see a beautiful site using tables than a butt-ugly one based on divs. (Not that you would design a butt-ugly site under any circumstances, but, you know, I see enough).

CSS is a goodness if you change designs every five minutes, want to skin your site, or care about designerly street-cred, but it doesn't make a whole lot of difference to your readers which way you go.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

The area where it makes a difference to me is in initial tweaking - you know, that week after you first pull together a look, and little things end up looking wrong? I like only having one place where I have to change those things.

And I do appreciate having my sentiments re: tables validated. :)

[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

actually, much of my mad html skillz came as a result of your various sites back in the day. i learned how to do tables-as-borders and css from you, grasshopper [or ant? i always get that confused.]

further. am posting from my back porch via my brand spanking new laptop, which i heartily (heart).

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure grasshopper = s/he who learns?

Further, YAAAAAY for posting from the back porch. Yay for my window view at new desk, too.

[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

ooh. yay! how is first day of new jobby?