Web Design Dubai

Advantages

Accessibility

Due to the rapid growth of the Internet, disability discrimination legislation, and the increasing use of mobile phones and PDAs, it is necessary for Web content to be made accessible to users operating a wide variety of devices. Tableless Web design considerably improves Web accessibility in this respect. Screen readers and braille devices have fewer problems with tableless designs because they follow a logical structure.

As a result of the separation of design (CSS) and structure (HTML), it is also possible to provide different layouts for different devices, e.g. handhelds, mobile phones, etc. It is also possible to specify a different style sheet for print, e.g. to hide or modify the appearance of advertisements or navigation elements that are irrelevant and a nuisance in the printable version of the page.

Bandwidth savings

In general, a tableless design results in smaller, more compact Web pages. Table-based designs frequently have a large number of tables nested within tables, spacer images and the like, which can significantly increase the size of a Web page. Tableless designs do away with the need for these and can significantly reduce download times, save bandwidth and improve the throughput of the site.

The CSS file can also be cached by the browser, thereby providing further savings in bandwidth, particularly for dynamically generated content as the layout information does not need to be reloaded with every page visit.

These issues are particularly important on busy and popular sites, and on content that will be viewed by users with slow Internet connections (e.g. on mobile devices.)

Maintainability

Redesigning a site consisting primarily of tables is a Web designer's nightmare, requiring editing the markup of all the pages on a site individually, although template-based visual editors such as Macromedia Dreamweaver can help to alleviate this problem. However, using a tableless site with CSS styling, the redesign can be done in a fraction of the time. The designer will not need to edit pages indiviually but can just edit the .css file containing the relevant styling, saving the client time and money.