I'm working on a spare time project to convert an awful site into something better. It's not at my company, but for a closely associated company that we support for free. Since it's free, I'm not wasting much time on it. The site was done totally with tables and had totally horrible code. It was also ugly. Still has ugly pics, but I've made the code better.
My actual question:
I've left 3 tables and wondering if I should have in all cases.
1. A list of landlords with name, addresse and phone number.
2. A list of companies, a short description, and number of employees.
Example:
Marshall Municipal Utilities
Provider of Electricity, Water, and Wastewater Treatment
106
3. Census Data (really no doubts on this one)
Just wondering if I'm in too much of a rush to save time and cutting corners.Sounds like tabular data to me. Just be sure to use CSS styling for the tables (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html</a><!-- m -->).
Styling tables in CSS can be fun. Since there are so many tags involved, you can reformat the table (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/reformat-table/">http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cs ... mat-table/</a><!-- m -->) in all different sorts of ways, and you can come up with some pretty awesome stuff. 
Originally posted by Jona
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/reformat-table/">http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cs ... mat-table/</a><!-- m -->]reformat the table Sweet!
Pretty much what I thought. I think it was the site that Jona posted that kind of summed up what I was looking at. When I made the switch to css it was cold turkey, and these will be the first tables I've used since. Almost felt like I was backsliding or something.I can't relate exactly, but I suffered a similar problem when first introduced to standards. With some explaining, a lot by Adam Brill, Charles and Robert Wellock, I learned how tables should be used and how sites should be designed.
My actual question:
I've left 3 tables and wondering if I should have in all cases.
1. A list of landlords with name, addresse and phone number.
2. A list of companies, a short description, and number of employees.
Example:
Marshall Municipal Utilities
Provider of Electricity, Water, and Wastewater Treatment
106
3. Census Data (really no doubts on this one)
Just wondering if I'm in too much of a rush to save time and cutting corners.Sounds like tabular data to me. Just be sure to use CSS styling for the tables (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html</a><!-- m -->).
Styling tables in CSS can be fun. Since there are so many tags involved, you can reformat the table (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/reformat-table/">http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cs ... mat-table/</a><!-- m -->) in all different sorts of ways, and you can come up with some pretty awesome stuff. Originally posted by Jona <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/reformat-table/">http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cs ... mat-table/</a><!-- m -->]reformat the table Sweet!
Pretty much what I thought. I think it was the site that Jona posted that kind of summed up what I was looking at. When I made the switch to css it was cold turkey, and these will be the first tables I've used since. Almost felt like I was backsliding or something.I can't relate exactly, but I suffered a similar problem when first introduced to standards. With some explaining, a lot by Adam Brill, Charles and Robert Wellock, I learned how tables should be used and how sites should be designed.