Now that the redesign is pretty much finished, I can start posting again. Today, I’ll talk about image mapping…in CSS! The result of this will look somewhat like facebook’s image viewer where people’s heads are outlined with a box. Of course, you’d need a pretty advanced face algorithm to find faces in a picture automatically, but I’ll just show you the box part.
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Which is better, divs or tables? There’s is really no correct answer for this and it’s basically a matter of preference. In terms of layout, they can work in the same way. However, I would say that using divs are more efficient.

In order to be rendered, browsers download the table’s presentational markup every time, even when the page is refreshed. While CSS can initially be bigger than a table’s markup, browsers cache the styles so that it takes less time to render the page.
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We’ve all been at a point where our stylesheets get way too big and disorganized, or maybe it’s just me that’s been there. In any case, we can always use a little optimization when we code. I’ll go over a few ways to reduce the number of lines of code for your CSS.
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If you’re paranoid about those people who have Javascript disabled, but you still want to have some sort of drop down menu, then have no fear. There’s are plenty of CSS only drop down menus.
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If you want to have a drop down menu that animates as it is revealed, one of the best ways to do it is to use Javascript/AJAX or Flash, but we’ll only talk about the Javascript.
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