Let me tell you what technologies I used for this site. I know it is an unorthodox for a web developer to divulge the so-called professional secrets. Well, it is 100% my personal work and does not by anyway belong to any company or client. Of course if it is work I've done for a client, it won't be possible to just expose one's working techniques. Work ethics as you know.

Like most websites out there this one is based on XHTML. Well, XTHML stands for Extended Hypertext Markup Language. Nothing fancy really, it's just an evolved yet more efficient version of plain HTML. And I guess it makes more sense in terms of the web environment. Don’'t mind the technical language, it's just meant to scare non-techie people. The fact is XHTML is not big a deal if you work with it on daily basis. It's all about the learning curve, once you get past it then your brain starts to utilize and tweak it in ways you previously thought impossible.

NOTE   During the stone age of websites in the 1990s, we designers and developers used HTML tables to lay down websites. You simply create a big table and divide it into sections each allocated for the particular part such as the header, side menu and content. At that time this method had its advantages. Or, on second thought, it was actually the only way to lay down a website. Like the 80s was a decade of bad fashion and funny haircuts, the 90s wasn't a great time for the web. Well, if you think about it, it was the beginning of the great web stuff we have now. But let's face it, we know there will never be a time when we look back and say…last year was a great year for web technology. It's a crazy non-stop technology and there's always something new everyday. Even last week won't be considered a great time for web technology.

This site does not use tables at all for layout, thank God for DIVs and CSS! A div is a box you can position and style using CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). It's way better technology than tables; it's more search engine friendly and by far more flexible.

Beware my friend that a lot of web developers and designer out there still use tables to lay out websites. Table-less sites are the new technology and better be followed. Plus, I honestly don't understand how somebody could cope with all this mess of tables inside tables inside more tables. It just doesn't make much sense. You know, it's a living nightmare trying to update or edit a table-based website. One of the major websites I maintain is built with tables…and I absolutely dislike it, but I have to deal with it everyday.