RE: [MACCAWS] Webmonkey article: Web Standards for Hard Times

At 23:24 07/08/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>might lose a few people.  I've yet to find anyone who can honestly claim
>that development time in css is as quick or quicker than tables.

I will quite happily make that claim. I used to spend ages messing around 
with tables trying to get the padding on things just right, dropping in 
pixel gifs and generally messing about. Now that I'm getting the hang of 
CSS I can knock out a design I like in much less time and have far less 
hassle tweaking it. It also saves me a load of time when doing server side 
development stuff - whereas before I might have had to dig around in PHP 
code tweaking generated HTML to get the right visual effect I now find 
myself knocking out structural markup from the scripts which I hardly ever 
have to touch as I can control how it looks with an external style sheet.

That said, I'm definitely a developer rather than a designer so CSS is a 
pretty natural step for me to take. I can see how Dreamweaver-centric 
design (as opposed to development) studios could have a lot more problems 
switching to CSS.

But then I'm just a 21 year old University student - not really the kind of 
case study that is needed for maccaws ;)

Cheers,

Simon Willison