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CSS based design vs. Table based design has been a debatable topic since long. Both the designs have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. CSS based design is however used by a majority of people today. CSS means cascading style sheets which enable us to split up the design and the content. There is a lesser need of codes in case of the CSS based design as compared to the table based designs.
There are various advantages of CSS based design. As the codes used are smaller in number it enables us to make downloads faster. This also helps the search engines in acquiring proper content from your websites which in turn leads to higher rankings. The ranking that the websites receive is of great importance for greater traffic and visitors.
Table based design makes use of greater number of codes which leads to formation of complicated patterns. This affects the ranking of the website. Here there is a mixture of less meaningful content due to the codes and your own original content. You can use CSS based design so that only meaningful content is displayed. You can also make easier modifications in CSS based design as compared to the table based design. The use of CSS based design is on the rise due to all these benefits.

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I stopped reading half way through thinking "wtf is the point of this? everyone knows css > tables with site design"

CSS based designs are for sure latest trend in slicing the web-page, not just this its one of the mostly discussed topics among web designers. It has many plus points from the perspective of fast downloading and being more friendly for search engines, but it has some hard side too: -

a) As compared to table based design pure CSS based design takes more time,
b) Its a bit of problem for developers when they have to make pure CSS pages dynamic,

But I am sure as pure CSS is becoming the default for designing & slicing of web-pages these problems will vanish as accommodating these things will become default standard.