When the Internet was first introduced into the public, it was only intended to share information and other forms of scientific documents and research papers online. However, as the market grew larger, people sought many ways to use the internet other than sharing scientific documents and research papers, such as its use in advertising and marketing.
Eventually, according to Web design Philippines experts, the internet became more media oriented while graphic designers used their talents and skill to control the visual appearance of the Web pages presented to end users. This is where the first table designs were used to make web pages.
Table Designs
To control the appearance of the web page, web designers or graphic designers used tables and spacers (usually transparent single pixel GIF images with explicitly specified width and height) to perfectly manipulate each elements found in their web page. Because of its success, many WYSIWYG editors arrived on the market, offering ways to create websites without too much understanding of HTML.
It was in the late 1990s the first reasonably powerful WYSIWYG editors were made available. Such editors indirectly encourage extensive use of nested tables to position design elements. As designers edit their documents in these editors, code is added to the document which is sometimes unnecessary.
Furthermore, according to Web design Philippines experts, unskilled designers may use tables more than required when using a WYSIWYG editor. This practice can lead to many tables nested within tables as well as tables with unnecessary rows and columns. However, the use of WYSIWYG editors posed several problems.
Many Web pages have been designed with tables nested within tables, resulting in large HTML documents which use more bandwidth than documents with simpler formatting. Furthermore, when a table-based layout is linearized, for example when being parsed by a screen reader or a search engine, the resulting order of the content can be somewhat jumbled and confusing.
Eventually, in 2001, the Web development industry shrank. Although it was effective, many people have had difficulties sharing information because of the use of tables. It was around this time that many became critical of messy coding practices and the idea of tableless design began to grow.
Tableless Designs
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were developed to improve the separation between design and content, and move back towards a semantic organization of content on the Web. According to many Web design Philippines experts, the term "tableless design