Table Less Designs

Tables are rigid and primitive. CSS presents new ways to do the same with a much more flexible , and smooth layout.

Benefits of Tableless designs :

1. Webpages are lighter and load faster.

Non-visible portion of the code includes html tags and all the background things that are not visible to the user reading the page. To format a page using tables for the layout requires use of lots of tags hence the size of the page increases without any gain in the visible content. Now any good sized website has 50-100 pages and the size of each page increases. For example table tags are used on each page to format the layout. When using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) one style can be applied to any number of pages for example formating , colors , borders etc. In essence the styling information need not be repeated again and again on every page but is applied automatically. Using a tabless CSS design or layout can reduce the size of a page from 25% - 50% and hence the overall size of the website is reduced in the same manner.

Omikrosys is one of the very few website designing companies in Kolkata providing industry standard and world class website designs using the most advanced and sophisticated CSS techniques which are highly cross browser compatible and have consistent look and feel across most if not all browsers.

Websites Designed with CSS are small in size and hence they load faster than conventional sites. Our clients at Kolkata are experiencing the quality and performance of websites developed by us. Our clients have confirmed the success of our designing skills with unmatched loading speeds and smooth browsing of websites.

2. Improved effect on SEO.

Tableless websites made with CSS have a much better and stronger effect on SEO provided they are designed in conformance to the W3C standards. Again Omikrosys is one of the very few companies in Kolkata who develop highly W3C standard compliant websites. It has been seen that using WYSIWYG designers with a tabled approach results in websites which have lots of broken, unclosed and mismatching tags. Now different browsers use different algorithms to make up for the errors in the tag structure (which is like an xml document) and hence the error correction process can again delay the loading of the site and have an adverse effect on the search engine exposure of the website in search engines like Google.

Websites designed as per W3C standards and using CSS have a minimum chance of such errors and even if such errors occur they can be detected very easily ( which is not possible in case of huge html pages made of tables recursively) and corrected. Properly W3C validated sites have a better SEO effect on crawlers and have a better chance of getting higher exposure on all search engines.

Omikrosys has been developing such W3C validated sites based on CSS for both local clients in Kolkata and global clients. Once again our clients have reported excellent search engine results in search engines like google which confirms our superior approach in designing websites.

3. Tableless and CSS based sites are a lot easier to maintain and modify.

Website designed using CSS and without tables are easy to modify and maintain. When designing with CSS the html page contains only the structural content and no styling information of any kind for e.g. colours , borders , font-size , layout vertical or horizontal. All the styling information is stored separately in css files which are just linked to any webpage that is intended to use the particular style. If 100 pages use a particular style sheet then it is easy to change the looks and feel of all those 100 pages by just editing the particular style sheet. This enables easy editing , modification and faster fixing of errors.

Moreover CSS styles bring in the concept of templates and themes. A template is a kind of dummy website which has a sample page and style sheets and can be used to build a real site by just editing the content of the html page. Themes are different sets of styles , look and feels which can chosen to be displayed on a website depending on the customisation settings. For example if there are multiple style sheets then all pages can be designed to dynamically select a style sheet from a particular database setting and hence by just changing the field of the database the whole website will have a new look and feel.

4. CSS bring a new DHTML technology

CSS technology enables changing the style of various parts of a website through the use of javascript.