The Register goes CSS

5 column stretch

[jetboy_70]

Popular UK tech news site The Register look to have launched a new CSS layout - with the front page displaying at unprecedented 5 columns. Not a table in sight!

[theregister.co.uk...]

The old version can be seen in the Google cache for those who are interested.

[mattur]

Not a table in sight!

...apart from the two tables used to layout the main columns ;)

[Sanenet]

Nice! About time they upgraded.

[grahamstewart]

Take another look at that code. There are plenty of tables in there.
Nice to see a mainstream site going with a fluid design though.

[jetboy_70]

My bad. The interior pages are a lot better - although there are still occasional instances of table markup.

[encyclo]

These guys used to have some of the worst markup I've seen on a web site (excluding Slashdot, who are in a league of their own!). The new site is a great improvement, and a hybrid design is probably the only way when you want to do 5 columns. It's barely usable in Netscape 4 or non-CSS browsers, though.

Of course, the overall look and feel hasn't improved much - and the Reg was always rather brash and ugly. At least they haven't gone down the tiny text route used by many sites.

[TGecho]

I've found that depending on your technique, five columns isn't really any worse than three, but oh well. Anyone notice how the colors change as you browse?

[Dreamquick]

They've always done that - colors reflect either special occasions (green for st patricks day) or the "channel" you're looking at (hardware, telecoms etc).

- Tony

[TGecho]

Heh, ok. Never actually *surfed* them, I always just followed links to articles...