Re: Tableless website
It's important to mention that it does take more time to build tableless when you really want to make it cross browser compliant, but the pros far outweigh the cons when making style changes in your stylesheets (rather than having to update every single page on your site, as mentioned).
You do however need a reasonably seasoned designer (HTML/CSS) to sort out the small niggles as many just give up and then you have slight discrepancies between the different browsers.
I would agree with the 'leave it for a big redesign' sentiment if your site is performing. Google's pretty good and fishing out content from tables, in fact we haven't really seen any difference in ranking ability between table / non table design. There are too many other important factors that influence ranking that's more important to attend to before tables vs tableless. That said, my feeling is that tableless is the semantically / standards correct way of doing markup.
You'll love it once you get the hang of it!
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