tables aren't really eeeevil, are they?
Oct. 29th, 2004 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxA 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.
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.