These days, everyone and their cousin Fred are "web designers" - they use things like Frontpage, or even Dreamweaver to create websites that they think are awesome, most of which turn out a little bit less impressive than expected. It takes quite a bit of practice and creativity to be a "web designer" these days (well, that and a bevy of other skills). One thing that a lot of people lack, unfortunately, if the layout skills that are taught in design classes. Well, Evolt.org's latest article aims to help you with that.

With all of the CSS and HTML and XHTML flying around these days, it's one thing to make tables pretty, but, as this article explains, there's a difference between "pretty" and "easy to use". Basically, they show you the other side of the coin - how the web looks to people with less than perfect vision or those that use a screen reader to get around on the web. Several of the fancier layouts on tables just don't work right with them, and their suggestions can help you get your tables working and easy to use by everyone, not just the people that appreciate your graphics...