CSS is iffy. Our business is mainly putting companies products on the web for sale. Our view is that if you want someone to purchase from you, you should make as few demands as possible and remove as many barriers to purchase as your can.

All of our sites will work and look at least decent on 3.0 up browsers. Even Web TV doesn't look half bad. When at some point, CSS implementation is matured enough and is ubiquitous we will start using it.

Our customers have on average around 6000 products. Using a templating system makes it a breeze to update the look and feel for non-technical people.

I think of it in the same way as Javascript vs Server Side processing. Server Side is almost always an order of magnitude more consistant and reliable way to go.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Re: Why use templates? by shotgunefx
in thread Why use templates? by BUU

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