Old School Websites...

[somedude]

I am just asking for anyone who has been developing for a long time to answer this:

Before the maturity of CSS, around HTML 3, how were sites developed then comparison to now, and how did you lay it out with no CSS? I know a few tricks, but I am VERY limited, as I did not participate in the early web as a webmaster.

Come on! Show your old school HTML pride!

 

[Tattered]

Personally, I would lay things out with tables and attributes within the tags. There was no global way to format all the pages like you do with CSS now. You would have to go page by page and tag by tag to make any pages. Of course, web sites were mostly much smaller and basically non-dynamic.

... back then I did most of my editing in notepad too ... wow things have come a long way ...

 

[Megaduck]

Everything was done using table attributes, etc. Example: instead of .css { background-color: #FFFFFF; } you had <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td>, but of course was rather limited as to what you could style considering not a lot was developed at the time.

and done mainly by notepad.. which is the only way I will code a website (even to this day).

God Bless,
Justin.

 

[kopilo]

I use to use a 1px by 1px image for backgrounds etc. Thus to change the colour scheme just change the colour of the pixal. Of course manually change all the font colours as well, bless find and replace!

 

[superfly]

tables and attributes... images in various places for added effect

 

[JTLauder]

Table grid layout. I really like the concept of separating content and styling, but table layout works very consistently throughout all browsers, and editing is easier all on a single page.

 

[wiggsfly]

Yep, before CSS tables were the way to go. Although for a little while there I was also using frames....

 

[superfly]

yeah, i also used frames at one stage... man... i was like the frame-meister... ugh!

 

[AmazingLoveAmazingGrace]

I used to use frames.

Then I got clever and started using iframes because I wanted to position my content somewhere else (namely on top of another image).

The only problem was that the iframe kept jumping around when you changed screen resolutions, but we sorted that out.

 

[plum]

frames, tables, etc... I used div aligns for quite some time but I don't know how new those are.