Top 30 popular websites are NOT using tables as main layout structure
This list of website represent successful websites that are using good practices right now, and are doing something to make the web a better place.
The list
- Yahoo.com – Clean and a perfect Grid Design example
- Blogger.com – None and very complex design If you ask me
- Microsoft.com – None, more complicated design
- Skyrock.com – I don´t even know this website, but they are doing great
- Wretch.cc – I don´t know what they say but they use not tables, very complex design
- Youporn.com – Well, they are about porn but taking care of web standards
- UOL.com.br – What you say about complex layouts again?
- Dailymotion.com – Eat that! YouTube
- Allegro.pl – 0 tables involved
- 163.com – This one too
- AOL.com – One of the once-I-was, make the switch
- WordPress.com – Guess what!, None as expected
- WP.pl – Hey Poland, what are you eating these days?
- Netlog.com – As a blog platform… was expected
- Terra.com.br – Go Brazil Go!
- Passport.net – He he, I see what you are doing here Microsoft!
- Apple.com – What do you expect!?
- Xanga.com – One more here
- Globo.com – Brazil has now 3
- Adobe.com – Otherwise I am going to uninstall the CS Suite
- 6.cn – What a name!, no tables
- Mozilla.com – Ja!
- Digg.com – Dare you!
- Tudou.com – Asia, once more
- One.lt – One, one… one more to count
- iG.com.br – Brazil, there must be some anti table/pro CSS law down there?
- Download.com – Okay CNet, stay that way.
- 56.com – Numbers in the name but not tables in the game
- Youku.com – One more YouTube clone without the tables, WTF?
- Divx.com – Finally 30!
Divx.com is the site number 136 by Alexa Rankings (today), so about the 22% of the most popular websites are NOT using tables as the main structure. They have from simple to very complex designs and layouts, and all have the same problem like every web developer out there, cross browser issues, but still there are trying.
In the other hand
What are doing these ones: Google.pl, Amazon.com, IMDB.com, Seznam.cz, photobucket.com, Megarotic.com, Imageshack.us, Google.com.mx, Yandex.ru, onet.pl, go.com, BBC.co.uk, imagevenue.com, sohu.com, craigslist.org, megavideo.com, free.fr, Google.co.in, fc2.com, livejournal.com (just one in the Log In/Register Box), deviantart.com, Google.cn, Google.co.jp, taobao.com, Google.com.ar, rambler.ru, Google.ca, Google.co.vn, Mininova.org (offline at the moment of the photo), adultfriendfinder.com, Google.com.pe, ebay.de, metroflog.com, veoh.com, Google.co.ve, Google.com.tr, Geocities.com, Google.com.sa, Google.it, googlesyndication.com, vnexpress.net, Google.com.eg, Google.co.th, fotka.pl, vkontakte.ru, sendspace.com, ebay.co.uk, mixi.jp, badoo.com, badongo.com, cnn.com, bebo.com, tom.com, discuss.com.hk, mediafire.com, yourfilehost.com, maktoob.com, kooora.com, multiply.com, iwiw.hu, Google.sk, rakuten.co.jp, Google.ae, gamespot.com, perfspot.com (yeah, sure), 4shared.com, rediff.com, depositfiles.com, about.com (for sure), Google.com.ph, usercash.com, Google.com.au, Google.ro, dantri.com.vn, centrum.cz, zshare.net, invisionfree.com (just one).
Finally
It´s up to you what tools or practices you use in your work. I give you that, but… think about blind people and accessibility for just say one example, just for a moment, think it. What will heard a blind people when enter in your page? And answer you can answer yourself: “A nonsense speech inside a tags soup”. I am sure that´s not what you want. Do you?
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