No More Tables: CSS Layout Techniques
Learn the advantages of doing away with tables, and see how to avoid common pitfalls.
Web Design World Seattle, July 2005
 Watch the video of the session! (Windows Media format: 57 minutes)
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Douglas Bowman
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Creating complex multicolumn layouts used to mean having to nest multiple HTML tables—a cumbersome technique that introduces accessibility and compatibility problems. You can eliminate those layout tables by using Cascading Style Sheets. In this session, CSS guru Doug Bowman walks you through the steps of a real-world conversion. Learn the advantages of doing away with tables, and see how to avoid common pitfalls.
About the Speaker
Douglas Bowman's redesigns of sites such as Wired News and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant Web design. Doug publishes design rants and CSS tricks on the Web site of his consulting firm, Stopdesign.
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