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Hi,

I used an analysis site to check my status. That side told me, that I use old tags, tags which are not in use any more,like applet, basefont, center. The other claim, this site made is, that my software uses table layouts. Is XsitePro in some cases technical outdated??
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All technology is outdated the moment it's released, but that doesn't matter as long as it works for the purpose you bought it for. There's nothing wrong with table layouts; we've been using those since the Internet was born. It's much more complicated to build a pure CSS Web site compared to using table layouts. After all these years, CSS still doesn't work the same way in all browsers; tables are much more reliable.

I don't think applet and basefont are part of any XSitePro features, but I may well be wrong about that. And just because a tag is deprecated doesn't mean the browsers will suddenly stop knowing what to do with it; otherwise pretty much all of the Web sites out there would be broken overnight. Not only that, standards can even go backwards. For instance, bold <b> and italics <i> were deprecated tags in HTML4. We were supposed to use <strong> and emphasis <em> instead. That has now been reversed in HTML5 and these two tags have been reinstated.

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Great post, Andrea.

I have never noticed applets and basefont being part of XSitePro.
The search engines don't care much if a website is built with tables or CSS divs, or both. The search engines rate content.
Content trumps design methodology where the search engines are concerned. The design (visual layer) is important for the human visitors.
People come to a website looking for information or entertainment. Where visitors are concerned, the visual presentation is important,
but the underlying architecture is not, as long as they are informed and/or entertained.

I would like to see XSite Pro facilitate using CSS more easily. It may be that the reason that XSP is tied to tables is that
the underlying WYSIWYG editor, Pinedit, is tables based. As long as Intellimon stays with Pinedit as the base for XSite Pro, they will be
dependent on the architecture that Pinedit employs.

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Right on, CopyWolf... I agree on every point!

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2. Off-the-Shelf XSitePro Templates! Versatile designs. Easy to manage and maintain!

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Thank You, that calms me down. I bought Xsite pro some days ago and made already some nice websites. It has some realy good features and it is very stable. I love it anyway.
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