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Nested TABLEs illustration
Nested TABLEs illustration


I notice inefficencies in your default webring navigation bar:
  1. You use four nested TABLEs where only two are necessary; see the inset illustration above. Tables greyed out are redundant, the thick-lined one is the visable border, the other one is the separate layout.
  2. You use << and >> instead of &lt;&lt; and &gt;&gt;.
  3. The code portion:

    <TABLE border=1 width="100%" bordercolor="--navolcolor--">
    <TR><TD>
    <TABLE border=0 bgcolor="--navbgcolor--" width="100%"><TR>
    {{navbarlogourl}}
    <TD width="1%"><IMG src="--navbarlogourl--" width=50 height=50>
    {{/navbarlogourl}}

    encloses a deffining TABLE Cell <TD> tag, whereas it would be better served:

    <TABLE border=1 width="100%" bordercolor="--navolcolor--">
    <TR><TD>
    <TABLE border=0 bgcolor="--navbgcolor--" width="100%"><TR>

    <TD width="1%">{{navbarlogourl}}<IMG src="--navbarlogourl--" width=50 height=50>
    {{/navbarlogourl}}
Using more efficent HTML would save space and confusion, and speed up display times on slow client machines, not to mention an incremental bandwidth breathing-space serverside.

Rereading this correspondence, it is not supposed to sound patronising.


Yours Faithfully,



Robin Hodson
incertia@hotNOSPAMmail.com