I'm really hoping we can turn this thread back around to its original intention. Which was to get people to recommend good designers (like Urb ... hiya
) who some of us could use to develop websites coded to XHTML specs using CSS and no table layouts.
Everyone is of course free to use or not use tables to their heart's content, and if someone likes to use them for recip links instead of doing them with CSS positioning it's fine by me. But please, let's stop discussing why or where we can or might use tables or why they're good or bad to use for one thing or another. (And no, recips are not tabular data, and can easily be coded without using tables.)
Maybe we can create a separate thread to discuss the benefits of using tables versus not using them, because otherwise this is like discussing why someone doesn't agree with some Link List's rules but still wants to submit there. In this case the rules are simple: no more tables and no more ancient/legacy code in any of the new website projects which some of us would like to pay someone to build for us.
Now... does anyone have a recommendation for other good designers who build sites to XHTML (strict) standards, or are designers like that as rare in the adult biz as it seems at times?