[TigerC10]

Personally I don't like using CSS because of the various ways that different browsers render CSS (some do it right, some don't - both Firefox and Internet Explorer are guilty of extending the CSS standards for browser specific things). You know how many times I've seen the words "moz-" in the CSS somewhere? Too many. Why should the code go out of its way to render properly for a client when it's the client at fault? Furthermore CSS is constantly evolving... I was programming CSS2 for about a year when they said, "hey look! it's CSS3!!". It's not like javascript where everything renders the same way - always - and the coding standards haven't changed in 10+ years.

Besides that, there's something to be said about achieving an HTML 1.0 compliance. It's like a badge of honor since you know your website will render properly no matter what (despite how boring it may be).

Anyway... Yeah. CSS is what you need to learn about, Mutt. If you're not familiar with that, then you're not going to know what's going on with the styles. vBulletin 3.x had CSS support too - and if you ever downloaded styles then you should have been able to see it on some level. However the coding standards have changed... There's nothing wrong with using <table> tags or those tags associated with them - as long as they're used properly for showing data that belongs in a table (NOT for layout purposes). Otherwise <div> should be used.