We spent months re-coding all our sites to CSS only. Just to say we could. UNFORTUNATELY the 3 column layouts of my tgp's are the hardest to make work. We researched and used every "Holy Grail" hack in the world over and over. And of course since there are no real compliance standards for CSS yet...the damn things would always have SOMETHING wrong in one of the browsers.
It would look great in mozilla and like shit in I.E. or vice versa.
Got real frustrating. Finally after a couple of months I thought: "Why in the hell am I wasting my time on doing something that isn't going to make me a penny"
I mean, it was very cool to learn CSS. I definitely needed to do that.
So I went back and re-wrote my stuff again. But this time using tables and CSS together. Now everything works and displays correctly on every browser.
The only way I could have went with table-less CSS would have been to completely re-design my TGP's. And I'm not going to make that mistake. I've already seen a couple of classic TGP's do that. They have ended up looking like My Space instead of the familiar look and feel that we cut our teeth on.
My "simple" design just isn't meant to be made on CSS yet.
And even the couple of times we were able to hack the CSS to get it to work...well, if you wanted to make changes or add something on the page BAM! The damn css would fall apart.
For someone who doesn't want to change their design, I feel that until browser standards for CSS are all compatible and universal...it just won't work for me.
But on a "silver lining" side...I can continue to design my sites with crayons and cardboard paper and retain my "amateur" and more human feel. That's my specialty when it comes to entertainment. Making them feel comfortable and at "home". Meanwhile, as more and more of my competition re-design their sites to go up a number on their Page Rank, all of their sites are starting to have the same "feel" and look. Which makes my shit look and feel more unique.
