Used a table layout, prefer a layout using CSS

Hello!

I put together a website located at http://www.c3online.org. I had 2.5
weeks to get it done so I threw it together using tables for the layout.
I'm not a fan of using tables but didn't have time to research a CSS
alternative. There are a few things I still need to work out for it to
validate but my question is, do you think it is worth my time to convert
this site to a CSS layout using DIVs instead?

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Jerry

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jerry wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I put together a website located at http://www.c3online.org. I had 2.5
> weeks to get it done so I threw it together using tables for the layout.
> I'm not a fan of using tables but didn't have time to research a CSS
> alternative. There are a few things I still need to work out for it to
> validate but my question is, do you think it is worth my time to convert
> this site to a CSS layout using DIVs instead?

The use of tables is not obvious with Lynx (sometimes you can really
tell that tables are (ab)used) so I can't see any problem with using
them right now on your site.

I did spot *one* error on one of your pages. Numeric character
entities are, according to the standards, supposed to be Unicode
characters and not Windows characters. The entities € to Ÿ
are all control characters by definition. One of the pages on that
site uses one of those invalid Windows entities instead of the correct
Unicode character:

http://www.c3online.org/recreation.htm

[snip]
: Recreation
[snip]
: [40] Recreation
: * [41] Yahoo Guide
[snip]
: * [53] Outdoor Activities
: * [54] Wi•Fi Free Spot
^^^^^^
:
: Community Education
[snip]


The Windows CP1252 character 149 is a bullet ("•") and is
the equivalent of the Unicode character (hex) 2022 ("•")
or decimal 8226 ("•").

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