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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 749288)

I love tables. I love them so much my web design studies never went much beyond them.

Doesn't excessive use of tables on a website bring your Alexa ranking down? More apt to be glided over by search engines?

Well, I don't know about that.....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...ns&btnG=Search

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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 749830)

Well, I don't know about that.....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...ns&btnG=Search

Actually, your ranking isn't too bad, just a bit over 3 mil(out of the few billion websites around). I'd post the link, but it has personal details in it.

Seems irrelevant as long as people can find my site via search engines. I'll take a #1 listing in google any day.

You're probably getting that #1 as a result of your Alexa. You're probably the best in the category of online radio that specializes in what you do(sorry, haven't got round to listening to it yet, I got a funky sound card in my pc).

I have no idea about alexa, i havent done any search engine optimization in a long time. Tables are technically more "heavy" since they require more text in the document for formatting as opposed to the formatting being all held in a single css file, but as far as "better", i still think it comes to personall preference.

Tables are gay. That is just my assumption, as I am having difficulties with them right now.

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<head>
<title>Table 4</title>
<style type="text/css">
table {border: solid 1px #000;
width: 600px;}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<table border="1"
cellpadding="10">
<caption style= text-align:left;><span style= "font-family:comic sans MS; font-size:12pt;">The SIMS 2 Promotional Enclosure</span></caption>
<tr>
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</tr>
<tfoot><tr>
<td colspan="2"><span style= "font-family:comic sans MS; font-size:10pt;">LATEST SIMS 2 EXPANSION PACK<br>Now your Sims can enjoy hobbies!<br>COMING 2008!</span></td>
</tr></tfoot>
<tbody><tr>
<td><span style="font-family:comic sans MS; font-weight:bold; font-size:14pt;">SIMS 2 University</span><br><span style="font-family:georgia; font-size:10pt;">Your Sims are taking over campus.</span></td>
<td><span style="font-family:comic sans MS; font-weight:bold; font-size:14pt;">SIMS 2 Open for Business</span><br><span style="font-family:georgia; font-size:10pt;">Get down to business with your Sims.</span></td>
</tr>
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<td><span style="font-family:comic sans MS; font-weight:bold; font-size:16pt;">SIMS 2 Pets</span><br><span style="font-family:georgia; font-size:10pt;">Create perfect pets for your Sims.</span></td>
<td><span style="font-family:comic sans MS; font-weight:bold; font-size:16pt;">SIMS 2 Seasons</span><br><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:10pt;">Enjoy all four seasons with your Sims.</span></td>
</tr></tbody>
</table>
</body>

Okay so I have the cellpadding there, and have double and triple checked it to my text book, aswell as w3school and when I preview my table it shows no padding at all. I know I saved it and everything. Help?

Your cellpadding is there. The cellpadding is the space INSIDE the cell between the text and the cell wall. None of your text extends as far as the cell wall so you can't tell the cellpadding is there.

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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 750738)

Hmm okay, well the assignment we were given asked us to use cell padding to make it look as if there was a margin there essentially. I'll just leave it as is then since I did what was asked. Thanks NE.

Take the borders off your tables- I think that may be what he's going for. That's what cellpadding is generally used for. Whan you have no borders on your tables, and there's no cellpadding, the text can bump right up next to the text in the next cell, but if you put cellpadding there, it will make a space between the 2 cells.

I left the borders on because that was part of the assignment, but I set the cell padding to 20px which worked nicely. The next question asked us to remove the border, which I think looks so much better. So now I'm done that. Just have an essay worth 40% of my mark now haha

anyone good at java? i understand all the logic but am having a hard time knowing where to start on my project.