Sorry for another nerd blog, but I must confer my thoughts. If you design web pages, please stop using table layouts. I mean it, if you find yourself nesting a table within a table to get something to look right for your flow, stop, and kick yourself right in the box. Because that’s what you’re also doing to anyone who has to deal with your site down the line.XHTML cleans up your html, it lets you separate content from design. It makes printing your websites a snap. No more font tags, no more tables nested 8 deep. It’s the web as it was meant to be. Look at CSS Zen Garden and be awed at what’s possible.

Luckily, Microsoft is joining the party, albeit three years late. Whidbey (the next Visual Studio) will allow xhtml strict output, and ie7 will start supporting web standards, thank god.