HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

Preface

I was already in my 50s when the World Wide Web burst upon the scene. Having spent most of my life to that point as a writer and editor, I naturally gravitated to the publishing side of the coin, rather than remaining content to be an amazed consumer of all the wonderful information and connections that began to flow from it.

As I saw the first version of the first graphical Web browser before it was officially released, some might say I've been there from the beginning. And one thing that bothered me from that beginning, as an author and publisher, was the inability to disentangle content from presentation. The interconnectedness of it all meant that, to produce a Website, you needed not only something to say, and some graphical designs ...