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design in-flight: Soup to Nuts: Making a CSS-based layout start to finish

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few years ago, it seemed we were almost to the point where anyone could make a web site. “What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) web tools that require no knowledge of HTML were becoming as ubiquitous as word processors and spreadsheet software. The problem: they were all based on a lie, or rather, a massive shortcut. They allowed web sites of all shapes and forms to be produced quickly but abandoned the principles behind the HTML language. Tables, intended for charts of data, were used as a grid structure, each cell holding different bits of graphics and text — this might not sound too bad, but it watered down the logical labeling structure that was intended for HTML. So now much of the web is unreadable in handheld devices and through assistive technology, not to mention slow-loading and convoluted. On the flipside, the ability to create web pages without knowing HTML provided a natural introduction to the world of web site markup, and undoubtedly got lots of folks started with web page design that otherwise wouldn’t have tried it out.

site : http://www.designinflight.com/05January/soup_to_nuts_making_a_css-based_layout_start_to_finish.html

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