Table vs. DIV

I have a little story to tell about the webmaster who used a table with DIVs and the webmaster who didn't. The webmaster who didn't use a table had the higher paying job, a big house, a nice car, and a hot wife because he got all the good jobs for his tableless designs. The webmaster who used tables only to insert his DIVs was considered a second-rate bum and many believed he didn't even know how to position his DIVs. He made very little money. He lived in a rundown apartment. He had no car, and he had no wife.Then oneday the webmaster who had a classy job and the ever-so-popular tableless designs one day was sitting at his desk smoking a cigar talking on his cell phone about where to meet his buddies for lunch when his boss came running in all excited and out of breath."We just got a whole bunch of affiliate partners that want to place ads on our pages so they can make money and we can make commissions! We want an entire column added to the right side of every page!"Now the site had been around for several years and there were thousands of pages of content to add this column to, and the pages were all written in DIVs. So, the webmaster gasped and dropped his phone as the cigar fell from his mouth and he said, "Well, that is going to take some time, I got to place new DIV tags on every page to add one column of ads and that is no easy task!"The boss lamented this news, because not only would that mean he would not be making money off of his affiliates until the job was done, but he would have to hire someone else to assist the webmaster with his work until the site was updated. So, trying to save some money and not wanting to take a lot of time to hire someone on a contract, he hired the poor unsuccessful webmaster who always used tables to position his DIVs. The poor and destitude webmaster reluctantly decided he had no choice but to accept the tedious task, because he needed the money. So, for nearly a month he labored on inserting the appropriate DIVs on each page, copying and pasting many times into each page. When it was all said and done he went to the boss, and he shook his head and said, "You know it took a lot of copying and pasting to insert all them new DIV tags...If the site had been designed with a table I would have only had to copy and paste once into each page to insert the new column. You would have made a lot more money instead of having to hire someone else on, and it would have saved me from a lot of headaches going vertigo looking at code. I hope you never have to add a column again, for your sake and mine."The boss shook his head, and stopped the man before he could go. "Wait!" he said. "I could have been making tens of thousands of dollars a day all this time if you had done my site with tables?"The tired and frustrated impoverished webmaster nodded with a grim expression, and the boss threw up his hands and rolled his eyes. Racing out of his office, he motioned for the poor webmaster to follow after him as he charged into the rich webmaster's office. The rich webmaster was polishing his W3C Validation pin on his suit jacket as they entered and he smiled saying, "So, did the columns get added to all the pages?""Yes!" shouted the boss, "but you're fired! I got me a new webmaster right here who is going to make sure I never lose money adding a column of ads again!"Now, the poor webmaster is no longer poor, and the rich webmaster is no longer rich. He lost his big house. He lost his nice car. He lost his hot wife, because she only loved him for his money, and he is in the psyche ward for going nuts and breaking computers at a department store.

Like it is said: It all depends on the viewpoint. It exists another technique yet. The CSS positioning. It have its advantages and drawbacks too. So please try using all of this techiniques and acquire the experience. Then you will know which technique will be the best choice.