I'm towards the end of the process of removing tables (except where intended such as tabular data) from my site converting American Idle over to a CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Design. My site is a very complicated mosaic of multiple blogs and I have close to a 1000 entries so it's tedious process, but the end is in sight.

Why am I doing this? The basic idea of CSS Design is that the substance of the site, the entries and the information, and the style of the site, how it looks, are separated completely. The great advantage is that once the meat of the site is removed from the style, it's very easy to change the look and feel of the site because one cascading style sheet controls everything about the site from what fonts you use to where information is placed.

To see how this works, have a look at my site without a style sheet applied. This is simply the blog in its rawest form. In the future, without too much effort, if I want to give my site a facelift, all I need to do is compose a new stylesheet which is far easier than going into every document and finding places where changes need to be made.

Since I'm in the middle of this process, the site is in a state of flux, so if you see something weird, don't worry, I'm probably just testing something new. However, there might be problems that I'm not aware of so if you see something straight-up wrong, just email me and let me know.

If you really want to see this in action, check out the CSS Zen Garden