CSS and how things ought to be

Just visited a link on dakegra's journal to a site devoted to neat little CSS tricks. Well, the person who developed them thought they were neat, personally some of them seemed rather pointless, but that's beside the point. I've clung to html tables as my layout method of choice for years now, for the simple reason that, in the beginning at least, it was impossible to tell quite what any given browser would do with CSS positioning. I tried it back in 2000 or so, and it was so hopelessly un-standardised (in terms of the layout different browsers would give) that I just went straight back to what I knew. I've had a bit of a look around and things seem to have improved markedly. So, in addition to starting work on ooh.shiny.org.uk (as soon as the damn thing is properly registered...), I'll be taking another look at affordable-wombles. Hopefully I'll be able to get it to look as I want it, rather than "as close as possible" as is currently the case. I'll just have to resist typing <table>...