Re: Would you take a complimentary course on HTML from a company whose website looked like this?

I'm up for starting a religious war!!

As I understand it, several Web developers no longer push for going to XHTML - HTML 5 seems more the goal. Compliance with any of the standards can be difficult, what with browser differences.

That is not to say to use old techniques - no - use DIVs for layout (use tables for tabular data), use CSS, use a js framework, etc.

And I'm intrigued by grids in recent HTML for layout.

There, I've laid down the gauntlet - primarily about XHTML vs HTML 4 or 5 advances.

Vern

Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:

Den 30/03/10 14.31, Michael Ryan skrev:

I think that's a great point Kelly. I think I'm among a lot of iSeries folks
that think in terms of lists. That's our background. And I know when I've
designed web sites, it looks like a list of 'things' cause that's the way I
think. I can produce some really nice ETL code for loading to web sites, and
I can write some really good code to process orders from web sites, but the
whole visual thing isn't me.

Then there are two things you really need to attend to - 1) generate XHTML (i.e. HTML which is well-formed XML) and 2) how to add CSS information so any web designer can sprinkle pixidust over without any change to the XHTML.

Additionally the XHTML can be postprocessed if needed to add all kinds of fancy stuff.