Everybody says avoid tables when you are creating design elements like layouts, themes, pages... Why?
Because:
- Main
(X)HTML says; tables are for tabular data not for website-layout - Speed
Tables have much design code than content, divs are faster for download. Save bandwidth! - Usability
Tables let confusing while creating layout(You have to remember which TR or TD ends in which template file) - Debug
Debug is easier with CSS, mostly all design code is in one css file - Update
Change design anytime just using css-style files without need to touch template files - Overview
With CSS you can separate design from code. - Cache
Most CMS support cache for CSS. Less work for server-cpu and more speed for visitors. - Print
Printing pages in css-layout are easier than pages with tables - Position
Absolute or fixed positioning is not avaliable for table-cells. - Priority
With tables you cannot set priority of content. (Browsers scan from top to bottom) - Access
Disabled people who surf with help of special devices cannot get the content of pages with tables in the right order.
It is easy for me to use
It is easy for me to use tables. But I will change to divs.