16 November 2000
Simon Gronlund
is earning his Master of Science in Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, as an adult student. He also teaches Java and computer-related
courses at the college. When he isn't tampering with his Warp 4 PC, he spends his spare time with his two boys and his wife.
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Hands on your home page -- III
Basic layout
At the beginning of the time a web page was a flat text file sparsely formatted by HTML tags, as from the
first hands on two numbers ago. But quickly pictures were added to these pages. And by the time any kind of bells and whistles have found their way into
the web pages.
Still HTML is not at all suited for layout, not as well as modern desktop pagemakers are. But with force and and a shoehorn web designers try to make flashy sites out of common HTML. This hands-on will give you a way to do the most basic layout to your site, and also point to some bad behaviours that you frequently suffer from.
Tables
In the early days of HTML tables were introduced, to be used as tables and no more. But in fact the tables had no restriction to what to stuff into them, as we soon will see. The area of this page that you are reading right now is in fact a table. And the three topmost links are stuffed into a small table that itself is located within a single cell of the bigger table.