This article is called Thinking Outside the Grid and the author did a very good job writing and using her personal experiences to make it interesting. Molly, the author, talks about how we need to get outside of our normal thinking, that a web page has to be a table or a grid. The wonderful thing about CSS is it gives us volumes of room to make our pages interesting and fun. She said that there is a new employee at her work who thinks the rest of them are weird for not using CSS more to control the look. They do what they are used to doing and using. She hopes that in todays world and those of us just graduating can change and revolutionize the web.
She stated that there are advantages to using a table based grid but, a strength can also become a weakness. I think that she means that because we are changing so fast in the web world that we need to change and evolve with it. We have to keep are strengths a strength and not let it be a weakness.
Molly has a point, we can use the table grid and change it up a bit, or we can use a non-conventional way of designing. We want them to have great usability, style, theory and funtion well to get many more people to visit our site. But, there is not just one way to create a site now. We just have to be willing to keep learning the new ways and don't get stuck in a rut.
2 comments:
When a novice user is comfortable with using tables and a wysiwyg program they will not want to learn CSS - especially if they are being paid for what they are accustom to using.
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I love using CSS. I started html using tables. Trying to get rows and columns to work just right in different browsers or on different computers was not easy. CSS has taken web design to the next level. Thanks for the article.
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