Oh sure, table-less design makes the whole thing so elegant. No it doesn’t, it bloats the crap out of your code.

Hello again gang. Still working on the revisions to the site, but they’re coming along nicely and should end up being an improvement. Typical really, start out trying to solve the spam problem (easy), but end up redesigning the whole thing from the ground up. That’s me.

Anyway, the chosen path I have taken is to employ some nice CMS thing to run the site in order to integrate the standard musings with the ability to comment and the proclivity fun and games all under one roof. Problem is, the CMS in question is templated up with lots of lovely CSS shenanigans.

Not that this stops it working, rather that CSS and the proponents of using it exclusively is the single reason every single goddamn site on the internet is starting to look exactly the fucking same. Same layout, same spartan approach to design, same fonts, same everything. We’ve gone from a stage where there’d be some sites which were just plain ugly while some were just plain awesome to a situation where every site is rapidly becoming just plain dull.

Far be in from me to criticise, this place is hardly the last bastian of groundbreaking design (although – steady on – I do have right hand nav! Unthinkable!) however blogs everywhere all look the sodding same, and given that the blogging tools out there are written by the same advocates of table-less design as the retards who think FireFad is the bee’s knees, this is inevitable.

There is precious little, in terms of layout, that you monkeys can do with CSS that I can’t achieve in fewer lines of code using a table. “The seperation of layout and content” bollocks. I seperate my layout from my content in a very simple way – I use a database.

But what if I want to redesign the site? Well, I redesign it from the ground up because – wait for it – I enjoy doing it. It’s you self-hating, design-hating, geektards who are crushing the soul out of the internet and they must be stopped at all costs.

I make my stand right now – I occupy the grey area between the elitist designinati and the unwashed MySpacers. This grey area is called “The Right Way“.

Right, back to work.

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