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Don't say that! I feel all important and cool when I use proper CSS! I will gladly spend the better part of my day making my site XHTML strict, only to be certain that it might not work in all the other browsers. In fact I don't use tables at all, not even to eat off!
I'll admit that there's something special about completing a site that is written using proper XHTML and CSS but it is very time consuming and unnecessary for most projects. I can't respect the opinion though that tables are always worthless. What about for tabular data? Should tables not be used there? Of course they should be. They were designed for that. Should they be used for site layouts? Maybe. Does it make laying out a site a whole lot easier and more compatible? Definitely. XHTML/CSS would be really nice if all browsers played nicely but when your having to hack this to make it work in IE and hacking that to make it work in Firefox it is a pain in the neck.
I used to make sites with tables before I got into css, and one thing I noticed was that a page made with tables looks completely different from one made with css. Thats the problem most people coming from tables have; they try to make the same page in css, but you can't. It takes a while before you realize that, but when you understand that you have to design a page in a different way, then it goes smoothly. Tables have their uses, but once you have started making sites with css, then you don't go back. The sites look more professional, and it requires so much less code to do the same thing.
Anyways, there is nothing wrong with making a site with tables :)
I do sites both way's. When i start in the design stage I don't think about what I want to do the site in. I usually start in Photoshop, make it look exactly how I want it to look and then figure out what the best thing to do from there is.