21 replies to this topic

[nandaspk]

Hi guys..

I have a website : www.bakoelweb.com
But, some friends comment that that site should be created with CSS layout

What's the advantage of CSS design ? is it really tableless layout ?

[Dawiss]

My opinion.. that your site looks alredy good and don't need CSS use.. maybe you could change thous buttons (contact, portfolio,..) so they don't go up.. but only change color when rollover on them, like to yellow or orange..

[electriic ink]

CSS is great because it can be used to make your webpages load faster. This is achieved by:

• Using <DIV> tags (CSS and <DIV> tags come hand-in-hand really, although it's necessary to use them together)
  
  
• Using external CSS style-sheets

I understand that they help aid page-load speed in the following ways:

• In order to load a table, the browser has to make two requests. One gets the structure of the table and the other gets the content. This doesn't happen with DIVs. If your entire layout is DIV based as opposed to table based then the page is going to load almost twice as quickly.
  
• If you use css, then you can set it up so that all your css is in an external file. You can call (correct term?) this file in your html. This external file can be cached. Therefore if it is called on another page, rather than loading it again, the browser just loads it from the cache (or the temporary internet files).
  
  Without this external css file the styling information for every page, which in a consistent layout is nearly always the same, is loaded unnecessarily over and over again wasting bandwidth and slowing page-load times.

I hope you can understand my definitions and that they weren't too difficult to understand. Either way, I think you should use css and div based layouts wherever possible because it does increase page-load times.

The answer to your second question is that it is not compulsory to use DIVs and css together, however most layouts do. It is possible to use tables and css together.

And finally, "how nice is css design?", well just look at cssbeauty.com where some of the best css designs lay.

Dial-up users will adore you if you switch

[Plenoptic]

Although the site might look good in CSS I think it looks fine already. I like the design, the mouseover navigation, the 3d images, and how you can't mouseover the page you are on. Really the design looks great as it is but if you think you could make it look even better using CSS designs go for it but if you don't know CSS yet I would start to learn and leave the site alone until you get a better grasp at it.

[TiKiRoKhaN]

Its really benificial since it allows your buttons to be statically made, without having to create 4 kb buttons. My website www.claniac3d.com is using a CSS Design, which also allows integration into my forum =)

[jlhaslip]

Another advantage to CSS is that instead of, for example : changing a colour on each and every page of your site, by altering a single file ( the css file ) you can change lots of stuff on ALL the pages of the site with one edit.

[grimreaper]

No Offence But Your Site Would Look Better With A Black Or Red CSS Layout

[Spiritreaver]

Css can CHange your whole page while tables just suck bandwith out like an evil vaccuum table css is simple and very powerful, plus more people can view your site in a shorter loading time, css can do everything tables do plus it has many other functions It makes your page look more professional as well

[thewildmen2]

Hyy Nandaspk, I know you're Indosian right..

I came from Indonesian too,,

You're website looked already good, if you can use the technique css, that will be more good or better to yours website.

[darran]

CSS really makes things more 'lightweight' like what was said in the earlier posts. Another good thing about CSS is that you can make it someway object oriented, what you do in this object could be reflected throughout the whole webpage.