I am guilty of this, too. Use tables for tabular data — don’t waste time making the CSS do the table tags job..
Here’s a code sample from someone who obviously misunderstands the fact that “it’s okay to use tables for tabular data”, and probably spent more time than was necessary coming up with the CSS to make this work.
Looks like a good resource
It was started as a reaction to the sites cataloguing Firefox extensions. Many excellent plugins for Safari have been developed, but because Safari doesn’t have an official ‘extension architecture’, many don’t know of these extensions.
Hrm, slash that validates. I’m guessing it’ll still be just as ugly. I don’t suppose this will help with the fact it usually takes /. 3-4 days to post a story that’s already been posted to a few hundred blogs.
Over at Slash Central, we are actually working on converting Slash — including Slashdot — over to XHTML CSS.
I’m not kidding.
Slick tabbed interface using CSS and a smattering of JS.
This library is a simple way to implement tabs on your page using CSS, a little JS, and semantic markup which degrades gracefully on browsers with CSS unavailable or disabled.
The short version? The May 1st Reboot is a community project that brings together web professionals from all over and encourages them to collectively launch redesigns of their sites on May 1st. The only problem is the entries are all extremely Flash heavy. Sure, Flash has its place — but where’s the CSS and web standards representation?
Thought this might fit nice with James’ post earlier.
Many times I’ve been asked how I created my calendar, or asked me if they could use the code etc. That’s why I thought it might be interesting to write an article on how to create such calendar.
Javascript calendar/DHTML Calendar by zapatec.com
Very cool. This is a commercially supported version of this
The Zapatec DHTML Calendar is an attractive, feature full, cross browser compatible, calendar.
Stu Nicholls | Cutting Edge CSS | Hiding email address
Well, if this isn’t a great idea. Wow.
Looks ok doesn’t it? But have a look at the source code and see what email harvesters will see.
I think I’m mostly done with the upgrade, let me know in the comments here if anything looks wrong, and which browser you’re using. I’ve only looked at the page in Firefox, but I assume the CSS will work properly in IE also.
Greased bunnies, now that’s fast… 
The site isn’t really standards compliant, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
And as a sometime shopper of the site, I for one seriously appreciate how the now-lightweight markup has made the pages’ rendering times faster than greased bunnies.
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