let's not beat about the bush: css stylesheets don't work – at least if you want to fulfill the current demands of a high-traffic website (ie. aesthetic appeal, browser compatibility and low cost).

i know that we have all the means to build wonderful layouts with css. but as long as there are as many browser incompatibilities and as many netscape 4.x users out there it just doesn't make any sense at all.

yes, one could invent even more crazy work-arounds, browser-detection scripts and all that tricky mumbo-jumbo to present the appropriate format for each browser. but i don't want to waste my time with that (it's even simpler: i don't even have the time to).

table designs are a pain in the ass css but alas, they do not only work, they work so well.

how disappointing.