I Hate Tables…
I’m in the process of trying to convert some rather lengthy data tables from my old site to the new format, and not having much success. HTML tables have always been a pain, and I originally hard-coded tables like this one by hand. This eventually became too much of a pain to maintain (particularly when I got around to tables like this), and so I began using Microsoft FrontPage as a way to shortcut the process. This saved my sanity (particularly when it came to color-coding and such), but did some funny things to the code. That was okay as long as I was still using FrontPage, but has created a bit of a migration issue as I move to a more modern set of tools. RapidWeaver is fantastic in a lot of ways, but as usual, ease-of-use comes with a price. From what I can tell, there’s a clever Stacks plug-in for tables that would be perfect…except it only handles 12×12 tables (plenty of columns, but not nearly enough rows).
I’m well past the days when I want to be tinkering with HTML; I almost would prefer re-entering the data by hand (which, unlike sorting through tags, is at least close to the substantive subject matter). Hopefully there’s a solution somewhere.