| What's so bad about using tables? | | | | Templating is made easy - you can have different |
| Difficult and annoying to change styles. | | | | templates stored in different css style sheets. Load |
| Positioning is difficult. | | | | the stylesheet as per template. This makes |
| Not Search Engine Friendly. | | | | templating easier |
| Cannot transform the page to other markup | | | | Search engine friendly - since code and content are a |
| languages easily. | | | | bit separate from each other when using css, it might |
| Tables are slower in loading. | | | | be considered SE friendlysome drawbacks of using |
| They are not flexible or free flowing on screen unlike | | | | css layers |
| layers. | | | | Tables are easy to use for beginners. Although CSS |
| Whats so good about CSS and Layers ? | | | | is not that tough to learn and use. Its very advanced |
| Ease of use - css is far easier to learn and use rather | | | | and very often developers dont make the best use |
| than tables which have a complicated structure like. | | | | of CSS. |
| Highly flexible layouts possible - css layouts are | | | | Table Postitions are easy to control in a |
| known for their flexibility. you can make the columns | | | | webpage.Although CSS can be used to control table |
| rows adjust as per the users screen resolution | | | | positions, tables are still regarded as a easy and fast |
| Positioning is so powerful - layouts which were | | | | way of putting up content online. |
| thought highly complex with native html are a breeze | | | | Tables preserve formatting even when the text or |
| with css. You can position layers both relatively and | | | | data is copied on to a word processing application |
| absolutely | | | | The conclusion |
| Least load time -lesser html tag elements mean lesser | | | | Today's Webdeveloper/Designer cant avoid css |
| load times. tables have table td tr tags whereas in | | | | anymore due to growing demand for accessibility. |
| css only div tags are main players | | | | |