I would like to build a new webpage and I would like to know Your opinion, what do You think about using layers to create a page or do You prefer tables and why?
It entirely depends on the situation, but generally speaking using W3C compliant web standards is the best way to go, for many many reasons
tables are probably easier to work with if you're new to designing websites, although overall it's a bad way to go. Tables should only be used for tabular data. CSS all the way. I ditched the tables about 3 years ago and now I much prefer designing with CSS rather than tables. CSS opens a lot more doors for you, when it comes to what you can achieve designwise. Alas it also means you have to learn about all the crap that comes with it (broken box model, hacks, etc).
I think you've forgot all the table gotchas that constantly bit you on the butt before you learned the browser idiosyncrasies, and the truly ugly table hacks. Remember spacer gifs? CSS is a powerful presentation language, and it will take some time to become proficient in it. There is no sane reason for anyone just starting to spend time learning table based layouts. There are plenty of tutorials on css in general, and css layouts in particular. Start with simpler layouts, and improve your craft from there. cheers, gary
I agree with kk5st, I did my first full css layout last week and it was one of the best designs I have achieved plus it was alot easier and cleaner then I thought it would be (code wise) If I had done this from the start I could have saved myself a lot of messing about but then when I started it wasn't an option. I would recommend W3C Schools. David
XHTML tables for positioning... but NOT for styling.. don't use border styles especially the ones that bevel (it's a very outdated look)
if you're new. dont try tables. start with css. and keep it at that. i myself started with tables since ive been designing for such a long time now and it took me time to fully forget about things i learned back then to be comfortable enough with css.
You should use every time css for layout. To note dreamweaver can't always display correctly the css layouts, but most of the time it can display tables.