Page design

Some years ago was a big discussion regarding page design with tables or with divisions. Now, however there are much much less of them as the tendency is toward using div. I use divisions too for page structuring as for some reasons:

• table designs are heavier than div-designs
• must of the div design code can be cached by browsers
• div design is more flexible

and the most important reason is:

tables are meant to include tebular data not to make up a design. Using them to build up a design makes it harder to machinge percept pages. It can be overcome by powerful algorithms but if the whole world is talking about SEO why not to help it?! Thats why table is not the right choice to make up a design and div is the right choice.

I build up pages by positioning divs, level by level, at the last level a div contains some block elements like p, h1 or table which contain text and data inside.

Span elements are also usable like divs, the biggest difference is span is more suitable for inline blocks and thats what normally does not happen to be inside the overall design of a page, but it is not impossible too.