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GarySekerak.com

If you right-click on a webpage (not on a picture), you will see a menu entry, "View Source." That will show you much of the code that draws the page. Almost every webpage you do this to will be drawn using what is called a table layout. Tables were created back in Netscape version 2 so that data could be presented in a tabular format. Designers quickly began to use them to position everything on the page. It helped them put things where they wanted them to be.

So there are two parts to a page:

1. content
2. structure

You have probably heard that some companies are putting all their documents into XML format so that their information will be highly indexable and available. It is a productivity thing. The Web is about to do the same thing. That is correct...websites will be indexable and you will have tools on your desktop that will access the enormous information content of the Web. This is similar to the way search engines work, only on steroids.

The only part of the website that is important to this new Semantic Web, as it is called, is the webpage content. The table layout method of building a webpage makes it difficult if not impossible to separate the content from the structure. The solution is to rebuild the entire Web using XHTML for the content and CSS for the structure. This is now being done, though it is just in its infancy.

WME already does this and will continue to not only stay on this frontier, we are pushing it forward. Our CompoundDoc technology greatly simplifies building websites in this new design model.