I would like to know if it is possible/ok to make a website mostly out of layers & css.

Thanks

Yes, it is most definatly possible and is the subject of a lot of the conversations around here. Designs that use HTML elements such as DIV and SPAN along with CSS (as opposed to tables and FONT elements, etc) are fast becoming popular with designers. There are a number of benifits and drawbacks to this type of design however, for example the main benifit being more structured and complient code which is easily readable by other devices such as screen readers for the blind, search engines, and mobile devices. You will however find that browsers have a tendancy to interpret CSS with some very slight differences, which can cause headaches when getting your design to look great across browsers. But don't dispair, there's ways around that, and a lot of people here on webmaster-talk who are more than willing to help you out if you get stuck.
As for where to start, www.w3schools has some good tutorials, and take a look round other sites that use a CSS based design (My site, www.inoxia.co.uk is one of them) and of course, ask here if you have a specific question.

Good luck,

Mina

Thanks a bunch Mina

Ill check those links out..and have a talkupation

Thanks,

I would not make an entire page out of layers because the layers can move around on the browsers, have some pixelation and other problems, tables are very concrete.
hong

You can do absolute positioning with layers defining left or right and height and width and then your layers wont move and they also load faster than tables

Mark

go to www.csszengarden.com

some nice examples of using css and no tables!

you can also try http://www.htmlgoodies.com

and there's also - http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tut...son/boxes.html

Originally Posted by hongkong

I would not make an entire page out of layers because the layers can move around on the browsers, have some pixelation and other problems, tables are very concrete.
hong

yes, tables are very easy and concrete, however, screen readers for the blind tend to go ape-**** when they see a page done in tables. Another thing you ahve to consider is the browsers that read text only. Tables tend to butcher those browsers as well.

Originally Posted by hongkong

I would not make an entire page out of layers because the layers can move around on the browsers, have some pixelation and other problems, tables are very concrete.
hong

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Wrong (sorry).

Something you should know. Tables are not for layout anymore, they are for tabular data only. W3C has actually changed the standard with xhtml 1.0.

It's advisable that you look into making all of your code W3C compatable.

Things like <b>, <i>, <font>, and some attributes of almost EVERY html tag have been eliminated.

If you want to make web-designs in the next couple years you had better get a handle on xhtml and CSS (especially div and span).

All of this is according to my Production and Design course so don't try and fault me on it.

(karinne has the right idea)

You're right collyer. In fact tables were never meant for layout. It was all one giant hack by the web design community since early html didn't have good ways to acheive the sought after designs. It was a very good hack, but it's no longer necessary.

html along with css has caught up to designers and are the preferred method for not only layout, but also all presentation. I'll so far as to say you can now style a page in more ways with css than you can with tables
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