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Using a transparent gif is just a passive-aggressive way of saying "give me space!"

History

Probably the main reason for the rise to prominence of the transparent gif is that early browsers had quite a bit of trouble adhering to width and height attributes in table cells. Why should table  http://www.pandorabeadcharms.co.uk  cells matter? Well HTML was never intended to support design or layout; tables were just the only tool available at the time that allowed enough control to satisfy graphic designers who were used to things like PostScript and writing on paper! Transparent gifs were just one of the tools available to coerce tables into a Frankenstein's monster of presentational power. Font tags, nested tables, and spacer gifs were just the marketing-driven solution to a dot-com bubble that needed fuel. No one stopped to question whether these were the right tool for the job. Sure, CSS had been specced out in 1996 and 1998, but we needed solutions now, and all this gobbledygook worked in the browsers of the day.

It was all business as usual until 2000 when all the startups went poof, and suddenly $100,000 for a website didn't seem so  Cheap Pandora Charms  reasonable anymore. It was at this time that the web standards movement really began to take off. CSS 1 and 2 were starting to see respectable support in all the new browsers, and being able to lay out a complex page without going three levels deep into tables became reality.

Of course these old practices had become the defacto standard, and you still see a sizable population of professional designers using techniques such as the transparent gif. Given that there's a large amount of development around this methodology, it's no wonder that designers are having a hard time making the jump to CSS. Designers using Dreamweaver can  Pandora Jewellery  continue down this road blissfully indifferent to needless complexity of the code they're creating. Unfortunately most web design does not live in a vacuum anymore. There are databases and applications to integrate, and that means programmers need to slice and dice mockups into dynamic code. This becomes a problem when you can't figure out which goes with which and which of those 100 spacer gifs needs to be included and where.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a purist along the lines of "thou shalt not use table for layout." I don't scoff at the occasional Pandora Bracelets Sale  use of presentational HTML. I won't whine about valign and width attributes in HTML. I'm a pragmatist. Learn CSS, you won't regret it.