I am quite surprised that many web designers still use tables when creating web sites. Tables are very useful for displaying tabular data, but should no longer be used for web site design. A tableless-designed site loads quicker, is easier for search engines to spider, and is easier to maintain.

All the design elements of a webpage can and should be on one file, the stylesheet. Then if you want to change something or even add a new element, you can, and you only have to do it once instead of editing all your web pages.

CSS and tableless designs are far from boring. When I started designing CSS and tableless designs, I got all my inspiration from css Zen Garden, where contributors are given an XHTML prototype which they cannot alter. They can only alter the CSS and when they do, they create works of art.

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