CSS

Templates don’t work. Plain and simple, but why? Templates are often times much less expensive than a custom design (if not free), and when you purchase a template, you see right away exactly what your dollar buys you. What’s more, templates usually look really cool. That sounds pretty good, right?Wrong. Ok, those things are true, but to what extent should they really influence your decision? When you pay for website design, you’re not paying for nice graphics, fancy JavaScript effects, or even a powerful backend - those things exist everywhere, often times for free.

What you are paying for is the knowhow to put all of those elements together into a finished product that truly reflects your business and capitalizes on technologies in a way to best serve your business and your clients. You may get lucky and find a script or a template that looks just the way you want it, or works exactly how you pictured it, but chances are you’re going to have to compromise at some point or another unless you have some professional guidance.

Disclaimer: We are a web design firm, so our opinion here is going to be slightly biased; however, still worthwhile.

Ever since I made the XHTML/CSS switch, I, like many people, have been terrified at the idea of using tables. However, I’ve tried to keep a relatively open mind about using tables to display tabular data (it is what they were made for after all). Now I have a very good reason not to.

What happens when you try to move data around within a table? Nothing good. Other elements stay put, <tbody>, <tr>, and <td> tags are bound to get lost in the confusion, and chances are, you’re going to end up putting in a little too much work. So what can you do?

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