James Kendall has been developing websites for over a decade and has founded and co-founded several companies concerned with web development since 1994. Currently he runs http://www.vp3media.com and focuses on one on one interaction with select clients.
Back in the day we designed sites with tables and hacked those tables into doing things that they were never meant to do. The table tag was designed to display tabular data not as a way to render the layout of a website. Unfortunately a better alternative did not exist so we used tables.
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