This week, I have read a website which is talking about “why tables for layout is stupid” in http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html

This article is taking about the advantages and disadvantages of table using in the web.

Here is some advantages that not using the table layout.

• make your pages load faster
• lower your hosting costs
• make your redesigns more efficient and less expensive
• help you maintain visual consistency throughout your sites
• get you better search engine results
• make your sites more accessible to all viewers and user agents
• and give you a competitive edge (that is, job security) as more of the world moves to using Web standards.

And this web page provide some methods instead of table layout , such like using the gif and some simple css style sheet to organize the data in a uniform layout.

In my point of view, table is a very convenient tool to organize the data for the non-web programmer, it is easy to use the table in the html edit program, such like dreamweaver , front page. And some layout design requires the table to make the information more structural. E.g. Currency http://www.hangseng.com/hsb/eng/rate/hkdtt/index.html .

As a result ,we can still use table ,but not using too much.