Brandon Waring - Ma, Boston
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Tableless web design, otherwise known as tableless web layout, is a method of web design and development without using HTML tables for page layout control purposes. Instead of HTML tables, style sheet languages such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to arrange elements and text on a web page.

CSS, introduced in December 1996, was made to improve web accessibility and HTML code semantics. Soon, there also began a trend of using HTML tables, and their rows, columns and cells, to control the layout of whole web pages. This was due to several reasons such as the limitations at the time of CSS support in major browsers and the new web designer’s lack of familiarity with CSS.

Some advantages of CSS include, improved accessibility of the information to a wider variety of users, using a wide variety of user agents. Layout instructions are transferred into site-wide CSS style-sheets, which can be downloaded once and cached for reuse while each visitor navigates the site. Basically, web sites become more sustainable as the whole and can be restyled or re-done in a single try simply by altering the mark-up of the specific CSS, therefore affecting every page which relies on that style-sheet. New HTML content can be added in such a way that consistent layout rules are immediately applied to it by the existing CSS without any further effort.

 There are still some changes that need to be made to the program. However, it is fairly easy to mess up while doing and is highly recommended to use a web page designer such as Media Monster. They will know exactly how to handle this and will not mess it up. Personally I would want to be in good hands when it comes to my web page design.

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