With the growing support of cascading style sheets in recent web browsers it is now becoming possible to design websites with out the dreaded <table> hack.
Using tables to position webpage content has been a key factor in the creation of “designed” websites ever since the release of David Siegel’s book ‘Creating Killer Web Sites’.
Table free design resources
css Zen Garden – One html, 145 different designs. Great demonstration of the way CSS can be use to change the appearence of a page. Great listing of CSS resources also.
The Wrong Way to Use CSS in Page Layouts
Work arounds for different browsers