If your website designer is still designs with tables then you are getting away from the benefits of cascading style sheets (CSS). Tables were not to be used for designing purpose but this has been the standard for a long time. Its not so now.
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Content separation from presentation. An external style sheet may consist all the styles for your website, then in case you wish to change the content you have to edit one style sheet only. This is great for a website with thousands of pages. Can you imagine editing each page..could take you forever.
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Benefits of Google More weight is given by Google to content close to the top of HTML document. Search engines crawls the content that comes first in source code. With the help of CSS the content can be easily structured so as to appear first with other source code following it. This can help in outranking your competitors with their navigation appear first and their content last..
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Fast loading. Page loading is slowed down as the spider has to crawl each table. Designing CSS-based web pages will load your pages fast as styles are contained in one style sheet.
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Small size file. HTML document file size can be reduced by CSS. Web page that are designed with CSS you can notice their very small sizes compared to one designed with many tables. This reduces loading time.
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Clutter reduction. CSS gets rid of many extraneous HTML code and thus makes your website code neat and clean. Altering the code becomes easy in case you have to do editing.
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Eliminate javascript. Many people turn off javascript and surf the web because they don't want to avoid viruses or do not want pop-ups. This means that javascript navigation you produced will not be seen. With CSS navigation you can sometimes achieve the same affect. These allows rollovers and other nice effects and are quite user friendly.
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Accessible. If you use CSS2's aural properties it offers information to non-sighted and voice-browser users. The CSS2 "media types" lets authors and users to design style sheets that makes documents to render more correctly for certain devices like braille, speech synthesizers, or text telephone.
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Time saving. CSS lets you design your website faster than tables as there are few styles you can use for each site. This saves your time.
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Money saving. CSS shortens the process of project development and eliminate design barriers that come while using tables. If you are designing several websites you can use the same style sheets or just make some changes to them. You can charge for the design project but will not take long time as while using tables thus earns more money in a short time for you.
Conclusion : If your website designer is still using tables for design, you may wish to consider doing a redesign. It can take a lot of work but if you leave it for too long it will be too much of work plus will be missing all the benefits of CSS that are mentioned above. www.abbacustechnologies.com can offer you quality CSS2 compatible site.









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