Today I checked out the Squarespace web publishing platform that allows users to publish web content without editing a line of code. Yes, I know there are literally 100s of these types of packages available, all claiming to be the holy grail for non techie website owners. Most of these website builders are functional but not very effective in allowing the user to get the ‘wow factor’ that will drive them to the site design they always wanted.

Tables are the bain of many a developer as they can be cumbersome, buggy on different browsers and hard to code but thankfully the days when tables were used to markup entire web sites are gone (mostly anyway!)

I found this Table example on .NET magazine and, as you can see, it really is an elegant, well written solution by Inayaili de Leon. Here, she creates a beautiful and original HTML data table using semantic and clean markup using the latest and greatest CSS techniques.

This coding style is careful not to use unnecessary selectors, classes or IDs and uses often underused CSS selectors.