KompoZer Table Tutorial

Folks looking for KompoZer tutorials are a significant percentage of visitors to this site. I have a post on KompoZer tutorials that points you to other sites but I haven’t offered one of my own until now. My KompoZer Table Tutorial is designed to help you understand how to create and format tables. The tutorial also uses the KompoZer CSS editor to assign in line styles.

Are Table Formats Legitimate?

My conclusion is that tables can be used to control presentation of a web site. Table format is still common because Internet Explorer often distorts a page based on a CSS because of the way it interprets the CSS box model. I have found that tables can be used to create valid and accessible web sites. (If using a "depreciated" technique gives you heartburn, see the links that follow.)

Survey Says

I recently had a need to search the net and found a page with links to several sites on my subject. Of the 6 sites I visited only 2 used CSS without tables to present their content. The 4 sites using tables also had a stylesheet or used inline styles to format their pages.

Sites using tables

• http://www.helpheartburn.com/
• http://www.healthology.com/main/heartburn/focusarea.htm
• http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/gerd/index.htm
• http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studies/cat70.html

Sites with only CSS

• http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/
• http://www.gastro.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=2

I thought it was interesting that sites using stylesheets only looked more like “table” sites than the sites using tables. I also thought it interesting that both failed W3C Validation for HTML and CSS. My toughest accessibility test also gave them failing marks but I thought they should have passed.

To be fair and honest, my KompoZer Table Tutorial title page fails W3C validation with 4 errors. StatCounter embedded code earns three of those and opening a link in a new window earns another. I did better than the guys who got paid for pages but their pages presented correctly in both Firefox and IE6 on my XP computer.

KompoZer Tutorials in General

I made a point in another post that there is the argument that “so and so” has already done a tutorial so there is no need to do another.” I hope that if one of those other tutorials didn’t work for you that my KompoZer Table Tutorial will help you do what you want to do.

My hit counter says that "KompoZer tutorial" is one of the main reasons visitors come to this site but it does not ofer a further definition.

I did the KompoZer Table Tutorial first because I was doing something else with table-based format and could document my step-by step on what I was doing. I can see two more tutorials in the near term. One would do just a simple page to get started on a site, maybe with more images than the Site Wizard provides. The other would show how to use a CSS stylesheet in conjunction with tables as many sites are now doing.

I’m not saying my tutorial is better than other tutorials. If the other tutorials didn't work for you maybe my approach will.

Wysi

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