Style your pages with html…DON’T DO IT.

Blogs are for talkin’, so here’s what I got to say.  This is to all my fellow classmates, who are brand new to this web stuff.  Do yourself a favor and leave the styling up to css.  I’ve heard it mumbled that CSS is better than HTML, great, but not exactly.  CSS needs HTML, and HTML, in my opinion, needs CSS. CSS is however much better at styling your html documents, then just using html.  So, when your learning about tags like this: <font> <color> <b> <i> and a plethora of others, by all means do your assignments, but then put that bit of ancient knowledge in your back pocket and move on to some CSS tutorials.  I will post my favorites’s on the del.icio.us sit . I also want to point out that there is a time and a place for tables.  There’s nothing wrong with tables, it’s all about how we use them. Tables are meant to hold tabular data and are not for making web pages look pretty.  Although, that method came about in the history of the world wide web to make pages more appealing to a growing audience.  Since, then there has been a major breakthrough called CSS.  This is the current standard. You should learn to use CSS from the very beginning. Why, it is more accesible, it is flexible in design, maintaining your pages is a breeze, search engines prefer it, and more.

If you want to know more about what I’m talking about, start here with this article from a computer geek on his quest to shed light on the necessity of CSS, by sharing with us a perfect comparison. Check out “Tables vs. CSS – A Fight to the Death” by Sergio Villarreal

~ by kerricummins on February 3, 2008.