Topic: company site -- CSS vs. Tables

Hey, I have question about designing a companies site.

I have been fighting with the battle of if I should design the site using all CSS or actually use a layout using tables.

One of the biggest problems that I am having really is finding a drop down menu system that I can incorporate using tables.
This has drawn my attention to possibly using total CSS for the site.

So, what are your thoughts? Should I use CSS totally or stick to the traditional table layout?
If it's tables, then how about a link to a nice FREE dHTML drop down menu that can be placed within a table. The brothercake is free for non commercial use (as is most of the ones I've seen on hotscripts.com) plus it is a mess when you put it into a table and the browser window is resized.

Thanks for any comments and/or suggestions!



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Go totally CSS for as much of the site as is plausible.

There's no good reason not to, assuming the company doesn't require total NN4.x / IE4 support.

not really. they are pretty much leaving it up to me on that one.

I'll work it up and see what happens with it.

Thanks.

Later,

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I am using a nice free dropdown menu from www.brainjar.com It was easy to modify for use on my site.

edit:fixed link to menu


[This message has been edited by Ramasax (edited 11-09-2003).]

I almost forgot - I've got a very simple drop down demo over here -
http://www.in-dented.com/temp/drop_down_menu.html

It is based on Mr Max's layer visibility script, with some simple modifications.

ahhh! Groovy! I will check out those menus a little more indepth tonight.

Damn beats trying to get it working in Flash! Great! Thanks for the links.


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After looking over DL-44's recommendation, I would say go with that one. The script for the one I am using is much larger and they both do the same thing.

One suggestion: make an unordered list of it, because that menu, as it is now, won't degrade very well.



[This message has been edited by HZR (edited 11-10-2003).]

Actually Ramasax, the menu from Brain Jar worked easier for me. I'm not really concerned about file size at this point. Client has a ton of space and we are not using a 1/3 of it.

HZR: Working on doing that now. Have to do some rearanging with the CSS file but that should be simple enough.

Thanks for the links and info!

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Don't mean to be a party pooper, but this just in: Pure CSS Dropdowns.

Just so you know.

^-- Yeah, just saw that yesterday. Pretty cool stuff.


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well you're not being a party pooper. I was using that method earlier. Just had so many problems
when the browser window was resized is all.

i need to "fiddle" with it a little more though. Didn't spen a *whole* lot of time on it.

Thanks for the reminder though

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