Presentation Flexibility Making changes to a CSS based Tableless layout is simple.
Professional website design can alter the CSS file only, changing as many styles and graphics as they want. The affects cascade through all the pages on your website, and eliminate the need for manually updating many pages.
For one of the best known examples of how powerful presentation can be, you can visit the CSS Zen Garden and navigate through the 'Select a Design' links to see the differences. Each of the different designs uses exactly the same HTML file content. The only thing that changes is the CSS file for each one.
Selling Yourself on Standards Sometimes knowing how to code for standards, and create flexible tableless layouts is not enough. There are some web designers who meet with difficulties from their management. Most often those difficulties are rooted in the management being unaware of the benefits of using tableless content and CSS driven layout. If you want to design for standards, but you work for a company that is not very forward thinking in allowing you the time to work on the changes try this: Make them think about their pocket-book. Point out the cost saving benefits.
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