Web design is going through a change. Maybe it’s already changed, and I’m just behind the times, which is not beyond the realm of possibility. I’m an old timer in terms of web design. I remember the days when nested tables were a new thing, and GoLive was the name of the company, not the name of the application.

These are the days before Dreamweaver. Yes, I’m old. We had to trudge through the snow sixteen miles to make our web pages. So what’s all this CSS table-less stuff? Through my jaundiced eyes, this looks like the web geeks are taking web design out of the hands of designers. All of it looks the same to me. It looks like drapes. It’s all design in columns, and it’s all code design, not design design. It’s not organic, it’s homogenous.

So I’m just going on record to say here and now that yeah, I’ll end up doing it, but I won’t like it. I’ll make my version of those web pages without tables, using CSS and I’ll be unhappy doing it. I’ll probably just find some kid who isn’t even old enough to remember when Macromedia was Macromind, and Aldus owned PageMaker to do the code for me. Ah, I’m just getting old, and this Web 2.0 stuff is not showing me anything that looks like an improvement. Just hurry me along to my death…go ahead. CSS…bah humbug.

200 Words on design
Andrew Shalat