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There has been a major paradigm shift here recently, (html) tables have been deemed personae non grata as have WYSISYG web development tools and all for the greater good!
Tables
Let’s talk about tables first. I personally never liked them! As any web developer will tell you they’re a nightmare. They were nothing more than a stopgap measure for layout purposes, thanks to browser manufacturer proprietory standards, and woe betide the grunt responsible for site wide changes. 
When I started designing web sites I fully embraced the idea of CSS and what it could do. Coming from a programming background the CSS ideology suited my thought process. So you can imagine my dismay when the browsers that I was testing my sites in gleefully ignored my specific instructions and laid out the page however it wished. It wasn’t just IE, Netscape can also hang its head in shame!
Thankfully there's a lot more support/compliance with the w3c standards which can only be good news for site designers of all types as we can now use tables for that which they were intended, namely data display.
WYSINAWYG
I recently switched back to hand coding my pages as it gives me complete control over everything, be it formatting, layout, well everything really.
I have tried a variety of WYSIWYG tools ranging from Macromedia’s Dreamweaver to a variety of shareware/freeware applications. Whilst using these tools I found myself having to reformat my code for readiblility, testing and debugging.
Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t like it when a piece of software sticks things wherever it feels like! So for greater control I now use ConTEXT for all my development work and I have to admit I’ve found myself enjoying my work again, which is always a good thing!
Hopefully the benefits are there for all to see. 
