Table Less Designs using CSS By: Varun Krishnan     What’s so bad about using tables? Difficult and annoying to change styles. Positioning is difficult. Not Search Engine Friendly. Cannot transform the page to other markup languages easily. Tables are slower in loading. They are not flexible or free flowing on screen unlike layers. Whats so good about CSS and Layers ? Ease of use - css is far easier to learn and use rather than tables which have a complicated structure like. Highly flexible layouts possible - css layouts are known for their flexibility. you can make the columns rows adjust as per the users screen resolution Positioning is so powerful - layouts which were thought highly complex with native html are a breeze with css. You can position layers both relatively and absolutely Least load time -lesser html tag elements mean lesser load times. tables have table td tr tags whereas in css only div tags are main players Templating is made easy - you can have different templates stored in different css style sheets. Load the stylesheet as per template. This makes templating easier Search engine friendly - since code and content are a bit separate from each other when using css, it might be considered SE friendly some drawbacks of using css layers Tables are easy to use for beginners. Although CSS is not that tough to learn and use. Its very advanced and very often developers dont make the best use of CSS. Table Postitions are easy to control in a webpage.Although CSS can be used to control table positions, tables are still regarded as a easy and fast way of putting up content online. Tables preserve formatting even when the text or data is copied on to a word processing application The conclusion Today's Webdeveloper/Designer cant avoid css anymore due to growing demand for accessibility. So my advice would be to make the best use of CSS wherever its apt and use tables only in areas where CSS layers cannot do the job Varun Krishnan is a mobile phone/web enthusiast. He is a web developer and SEO consultant. He's currently heading http://www.FoneArena.com. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Varun_Krishnan Article Source: zeronese.net article directory. Article Word Count Appx. : 331 Article Category: Articles » HTML-and-CSS » CSS See all articles by Varun Krishnan Note: Copying of article contents in whole is permitted provided that article body and article author by-lines are kept intact and unchanged. Hyperlinks and/or URLs including article source link provided by authors and/or zeronese must remain active at all times.       The views and opinions of authors expressed on Zeronese Article Directory web sites do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Zeronese.net .