Designing with layers or tables??

[precie]

I have been using tables to align my content. I would like to use layers as in page layout programs. Has anyone had experience using layers in Dreamweaver for example. I know that Internet Explorer lower than 4.0 won't handle layers but who is still using anything lower than 4 anyway?

 

[YNOTU]

I have never used layers but, have you considered using CSS ?

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just a thought

 

[cian]

By layers I presume you mean divs positioned with CSS?
Use CSS if you have the browsers to test in otherwise I would stick with tables for now as they are more stable.
The current worst browser is IE.

Less than 4? I don't support anything less that the latest, but that's just me. I wrote off v4 browsers a long time ago.



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[MrBelfry]

The last site i developed (follow the link in my sig) I did using CSS and divs. It was slightly trickier using divs than the stuff I'd done previously with tables (such as

http://www.lighthousecc.co.uk)

but having used divs and css I much prefer it.

In my opinion using divs makes my page more flexible. It also makes it more accessible.

IE does seem to lag a little bit behind but I achieved everything i wanted

MrBelfry

http://www.mrbelfry.co.uk

 

[uninstallilookup]

I tried using layers in Dreamweaver but it does not come out cross browser friendly. They may have fixed that in 2004 version. I try to stick to tables at all time.

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[precie]

Pardon my ignorance but what is divs and css. I think css stand for cascading style sheets, but what is it?

 

[cian]

CSS controls the presentation and layout of html elements such as divs headers paragraphs etc. Each webpage is created with HTML elements, the page is essentially linked to 1 CSS sheet which essentially defines the presentation for each page which links to it.
Ok, now a great definition but maybe it helps.

Try:

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=ga&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=css+tutorials&meta=

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=ga&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=css+faq&meta=

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