Seperating Content from Presentation

[zachogden]

OK, ive never done a poll before, but I hope this works:

What do you guys think about seperating content from presentation; that is, using XHTML for (what the name implies) markup, and using CSS for presentation?

personally, I believe that there is a reason that the W3C has deprecated such horrible Presentation tags such as <hr /> and <font>.

again, i hape the poll works.

[php_brian]

Web designs that use XHTML and CSS properly are very sexy. I said XHTML and not HTML, meaning using HTML the way it should be and modelled after XML. I remember back when using tables was the newest and best way to layout pages. Tables are used for tabular data as they were intended for in the first place.

[stuka]

Always, always, ALWAYS separate layout from content - whether it's in web work, or ANYTHING. It improves maintainability and sanity.

[gold_dragon]

I agree, if you don't separate it out then:

1. It makes it really hard for someone else to take what you have and edit it.

2. Takes too long to use Font tags, even when you copy and paste. It is better to have all of the styling in one or two files for all the pages than having the design on all the pages and having to edit them all manually.

3. Makes for EXTREMELY hard to read source.

It seems most people agree.