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First 'web 2.0' website I am seeing that is so well designed AND uses extensively tables for HTML markup. The site is basically one large image without any real text, so far for SEO.

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Yeah, the first thing I did was 'view source'. Sheesh, what a mess.

Check out this: http://static.stickybits.com/web/images/fp_08.jpg. Zero SEO value by putting text in images.

For such a great design, it totally fails at implementation.

To ensure the same type of experience across browsers, we decided to make much of the top images. Most people still use IE, and we didn't want gross rendered text.

Also, I like tables :) They just work.

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