Tableless Web Site (CSS) - Benefits

Tableless design is a method of web site design without using HTML tables for a layout purposes. Instead of HTML tables, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to arrange elements and text on a web page.

Following are some of the benefits of tableless layout web site:

1. Cleaner Code: You would be forced to write clean code in the tableless web site. Thus your web site would be W3C guidelines complaint.

2. Faster Load Time: Tableless layout web site loads faster than web sites built using tables. You can reduce size of your web site by 2-5 times by converting into CSS design.

While loading a table layout web site, every time browser has to scan the table twice and then load the content of the page, which apparently increases the load time. On the other hand, CSS files are easily cached in to the browser and CSS layout web site with no td, tr tags loads comparatively faster. Tons of td and tr tags increase the web page size tremendously.

CSS layout web design on the other hand, saves the bandwidth and loads faster.

3. Easy to manage web site: Design your site with CSS and maintain it easily by simply editing one file to make a change throughout the whole site. Thus making changes to a tableless layout is simple since it eliminates the need to manually update the web pages.

4. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) benefits: Search engines gives preference to all the web sites with higher content to code ratio. With CSS layout design, you can organize your important content at the top of the web page and by defining all the content formatting elements in to an external CSS, will help you make your web site highly content based. On the other hand, tableless layout ease and enhance the crawling speed by the search engine crawler or the bot.

5. Screen Resolution Friendliness: Tableless CSS layout web sites fit the browser window on any screen resolution.

6. Wide accessibility: Due to rapid growth in Internet Technologies, it has been necessary for the web content to be accessible to variety of devices e.g. mobile phones. Thus tabless design improves the accessibility of the web content.