CSS-Table Layout: Overview
Your best client, Harvey, calls. "Joe", he says, "Our new marketing guy says that the web site needs to be fluid... it needs to expand and contract when people resize their window. Can you have it done by next Tuesday?"
"Er, uh, sure", you stammer. You hang up the phone, curl into a fetal position, and you want to die... on Monday. There are 283 pages and each one contains a fixed-width table. If it takes five minutes to edit each page, it'll take TWENTY-THREE hours to edit them all.
You can prevent this from ever happening to you again if you use CSS to control your tables.
CSS works for tables too
CSS positioning is not exclusive to "table-less" layouts. If you had used CSS to lay out Harvey's site, you could have converted all 283 pages from fixed width to fluid in less than one minute.
Looking backward and thinking forward
Pretend you can go back in time to that fateful day when you first created Harvey's site and you can do it all over.
Before you begin, please download the project files:
Unzip the project files and define a new Dreamweaver site (using the project files folder as its root) to use while working through the tutorial.