Why you should consider "slicing" your graphic images.
- When we slice and dice our designs in order to create a website, optimizing the images is a key factor when we are focusing in our site’s response time.
- Solid colors, Simple and small icons, Typography, Basic transparency, (Simple shapes over a solid color)image slicing
- Slicing can create a good balance between file size and image quality
Why you should not use tables?
- “They are not made for layout.”
- Unnecessarily complication code, they defy the most basic rule of information storage and retrieval by mixing content with appearance, they destroy logical document flow, and most of all, they were not a tool which was created to do this job.
- Why continue using them when CSS has a whole suite of far superior page layout features, with the added bonus of streamlined code, separation of content appearance and caomplete control over logical document flow?Bad tables
- Search Engines: I have redesigned many websites eliminating tables and placing all links in unordered lists and have seen there search engine rankings improve drastically.
- Compatibility: Remember that in today's day and age websites are being viewed on everything from 60 inch plasma TV's to 3 inch cell phone screens. If you assign a table a width of 780 it becomes near impossible for visitor using a handheld device to view your website.
- Accessibility: People with disabilities have the right to enjoy the web! If your website uses tables a visitor using an audio browser is going to have trouble accessing your website. Go ahead and try to use your website with and audio browser.Tables