Table or Panels?

[jgoodman00]

In the standard web page layout of a header bar along the top, menu bar on the left, content in the middle & footer bar along the bottom what is the preffered method of implementing this?

I currently use tables to position objects where I want them, but I am not sure if this is the best practice?

e.g.

<Table1>
  <tr>
    <td>MainMenu</td>
    <td>
      <Table2>
        <tr>HeaderBar</tr>
        <tr>MainContent</tr>
        <tr>FooterBar</tr>
      </Table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</Table>

Also, I currently copy these table objects manually into each page & then include my commonly used control objects (such as menu bar etc), before designing each page.
Is this the best practise, or is there a better way of doing this?

James Goodman MCSE, MCDBA

http://www.j.goodman.dsl.pipex.com

 

[tgreer]

Put them all in <div> tags, and position using CSS.

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[jgoodman00]

What do you mean?
Can you convert my sample as an example?

James Goodman MCSE, MCDBA

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[RichS]

<<<Also, I currently copy these table objects manually >>>

James,
you may want to consider creating a user control for these objects. The following link describes it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...de/html/cpconcreatingtemplatedusercontrol.asp