While CSS design is the "proper" way to do things, I have to agree with Weedy Lady on the problems that CSS tosses at you. I'm just in the process of finishing up a site using 100% tableless design, stylesheets and the like. It took me nearly a week to get things working in ie6, ie7, konqueror and firefox and get it to look *reasonably* the same in all of them. (ie6 still renders portions incorrectly, but both my client and i are of the mindset that people REALLY shouldn't be using that antique any longer, though the military still does)

I've built quite a few sites using tabled designs over the past 25 years. Some of those sites still rank very highly in their markets.

If you've got the time to go tableless, do so. If not, and you're comfy in tables,use them. It may not be proper, but it still works.

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