I decided to update my blog look and feel. I normally don’t play much in the UI space but I figured I’d have a crack at it to improve my skills.
After mucking around with float:left, auto margins and friends, I can’t help but wonder what really was the problem with using tables?
I’ll keep at it.
I know that pain! If it helps, I wrote what I did when I last up-themed my wordpress instance http://madbean.com/2008/sandbox-child-theme/
use gwt’s ui widgets =) then you wont need to worry about layouts in css!
+1! It’s like everything else though, tables can be overused (spacer.gif hell anyone?) and so can CSS.
The thing with CSS is that one probably needs to “plan” a bit more before starting, in terms of organising the styles and how you’re going to use them but I guess the payoff is that it will be a lot easier to revamp the site next time around…
I gave up redoing my table design and just went with a free downloaded WordPress theme. I’m pretty happy with the result.