I was just getting ready to tackle my first theme in Drupal 7, and is my practice, looking through the themes to find for one to hack into being mine, when I found that none of them used tables for layout. Now I have heard many people voice the opinion that tabled layouts (which I've been quite successful with) are bad, and CSS (which I am less prepared to deal with) are good. And in my ages of experience I have, up until now, assumed that the expressed choice between good and bad was based on (as it often is) what people had learned vs what they had not, and did not want to have to bother to learn, so I said nothing until now Now I see that Drupal 7 (a product I have some respect for) seems to have none, in those that I have looked into, at least. Did what I had perceived to be merely a prejudice of the lazy make it's way all the way into the D7 Platform, or is there some legitimate reason for abandoning tabled layouts that I have missed (must I finally buckle down to my own laziness and tackle CSS to that depth)? Why are Tables BAD and CSS GOOD (keep in mind, I'm after a good looking theme, and not good looking code, necessarily, since none of my end users will ever look at the code). I am looking for some reason other than good looking code (or someone's vision of correctness) to get behind CSS for my themes, and believe me "being easier" won't convince me much either. I'm guessing there must be some other good reason I've missed. What would that be? Warren Vail