Re: Tableless website
When you build a site with tables...you start out with one table that "houses" the entire site.
Then when you move down to the content area, you'll typically have a side column and a main area. You'll need one more table to "house" both the sidebar table and the main table.
Then both the sidebar will have its own table and the main area will have its own table.
Now you have 3 nested tables, before you have even gotten to content layout.
Bots and crawlers have trouble going more than 4 nested tables, so it depends on how complicated your build is.
Another downside to tables is the way bots will read and index your content. Just because the content is side by side doesn't mean it will put the two sets of content together. Once again it all depends on your build.
Instead of the bots crawling your content from block A, to block B, to C, to D, it may go from block A, to block C, to block B, to block D. And if your content doesn't flow in that order the bots can get a different impression of what your site is really about.
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