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Why Should You Opt For Tableless Website Design?

Announcement posted by Web Design Sigma InfoTech Pty Ltd 02 Jul 2012

Tableless website design is a modern design technique that uses CSS instead of HTML tables. It ensures higher web accessibility, lower bandwidth cost and easy maintenance of the website.

In order to ensure a lasting impression on the visitors, it is important to invest in a website design that enhances the user experience. One of the techniques used in enhancing the performance of a website is tableless website design. It is a technique that leaves out HTML tables and uses CSS to arrange the elements on the web page.

In tableless website design, the text and other elements are arranged with the help of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). Unlike traditional form of table-based web design, tableless design is more flexible and search engine-friendly. While table-based design is an easy way of creating a site, the CSS tableless design ensures higher web accessibility and better performance of the site. In this modern technique, DIVs, which basically contain the web content, are used in place of tables. The web designer can organise the content on the web page on the basis of need and priority. The most important content can be posted on top of the page without even touching the layouts and web pages.

Some of the significant reasons for using tableless web design instead of table-based design are discussed below:

  1. More complex and creative designs can be created using table-less format without facing much trouble, thus making the design more flexible. It allows the designers to put their creativity on display without hampering the functionality of the site and without making it difficult to operate for the layman.

  2. CSS tableless design also helps in getting the site indexed faster and more effectively by the search engines. It helps in improving the ranking of the site by eliminating the junk and allowing the search engine spiders to crawl through the site.

  3. It saves website bandwidth, eliminating the cost of hosting fee or bandwidth fee.

  4. Making modifications and updating a website is much easier in tableless design as compared to table-based design. It is less time-consuming and more cost-effective to completely change the design or make some changes.

  5. Changes in the page structure are also easier because the DIVs used in tableless website design are resizable.

  6. Tableless website design also improves the load speed of the site because it reduces the file size of the web page.

  7. Multiple style sheets for different media types can also be attached in CSS design.

Table-based website design is a more rigid form of design technique that might be time-effective, but doesn’t facilitate flexible design. On the other hand, in CSS-based design, the website designers have to spend extra time on creating the website, but they manage to create a more flexible and user-friendly design. While, tableless design should be preferred, one shouldn’t just do away with table-based design completely. It can be used in case of graphical representation or statistical details.

Thus, it is advisable that modern web designers should opt for tableless design to make the site search engine-friendly and more accessible to the users, save bandwidth costs and easily maintain the site with respect to the frequent changes in the design.


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