Arranging Assets on the Template

How you arrange the information on your page, if you need a specific layout structure, can be done either with HTML tables or the use of CSS to place objects.

For the most part, when you insert an asset on a page template, subtemplate, or region template, it is inserted where you place the cursor. However, this does not necessarily mean that the asset appears in the finished web page the same way it appears in Designer. Variances such as the consumer's browser choice, the browser window size, and what other objects a contributor has placed in the contributor data file can make the Web site appear to be organized differently.

CSS is the more efficient method, because CSS files are a managed object and can allow for maximizing reusability. If you place a table in an asset, such as a subtemplate, then to use that same structure in other assets, you must re-create the table. If you do use tables in this way, then you have to make the changes across multiple places when you want to make the changes.

With CSS, you can identify the exact placement of each site asset, including elements, within the style sheet.

Many prefer to use tables because they are easy to set up and create on the web page. A table offers a quick solution of structuring the relative placement. With a table, you can create a shape of cells that place data into relative placement to each other.