[HTML/CSS] Layout Through Tables. Good or Bad?

BN Web Design

Here is a website that I'm working on. It has no purpose yet, other than practice, but it will soon become a portfolio for when i become a freelance web designer in the future.

Anyways, the only thing coded at the moment is the home page which shows nothing but rates and some dummy text. If you'll take a look at the coding (view source), you'll notice that nearly everything is grouped and organized into tables. The entire page is practically one big table.

I remember reading somewhere on ragezone a while back, someone once said organizing things into tables is a bad practice, but someone else said that it made for a simple and easy coding(which i, at the moment, agree with).

So i want to hear your opinions. Is organizing things with tables a good or bad practice? and Why?

Thank You.

I wouldnt suggest it, and your website isnt ie compatible but hey, Its good for begginers.

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*EDIT* Nvm its compatible, And it isnt all one big table? Your using CSS?

Yeah i just updated it so it works fluently with IE now.

Yeah it's pretty basic, i only know HTML and CSS now (my CSS isn't even great). I'll be picking up books on javascript, ajax, and php soon. Eventually, i'll attempt JQuery.

Thanks for the feedback!

This is basic but when the content is complete, it has the potential to be quite effective! If you need any help with CSS, feel free to PM me..!

use div to code the template and use table to organize data.

So you're saying apply the tables for layout, and then use div's for CSS alteration?

no im saying use tables to organize data like your rates chart and use div for the layout of the website

Yes, pretty much what everyone else said. Use div&css for layout.
I have been using tables before, but once figured out a way around using div&css for layout, coding got much easier.

Like all previous ppl have said, use div's for layout, like "boxes" where to put stuff, header, sidebar, menu, main content, footer, etc. Then if you want to do some stylish way of organizing for example a form, you can use a table for that.

imo divs are nicer to work with, I don't know why but I feel that it helps structure your code. Personal preference I guess, different coders use different things and throughout the websites I've been on I've seen a mixture of div and table templates.

Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered

this 8 years old site got it right

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(seeing that even before 8 years they knew it's stupid, should give you answer without even reading it to be honest)

just to let you know jQuery isn't a language it's a javascript framework.

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Originally Posted by Bonitão

just to let you know jQuery isn't a language it's a javascript framework.

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So if i were to use divs over tables, how would i go about positioning everything?

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Originally Posted by togetherwerise

so if i were to use divs over tables, how would i go about positioning everything?

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