Yes Chris, MySQL is OK.
I found an interesting HTML comment in the source code for JCCC's home page, "<!-- I almost had a completely table-free layout. But, thanks to Bill and his wonderfully creative browsers, I've got this. --> <table class=3D'body' cellpadding=3D'0' cellspacing=3D'0' summary=3D'This table contains the navigation, spotlight stories and announcements of the web site.'> =09<tr><td><div class=3D'navbar'> =09 <div class=3D"menu">......."
I love the name of this guy's global style sheet, <link rel=3D"stylesheet" title=3D'Site Standard' type=3D"text/css" href=3D"/css/trueblue/splash.css">. TRUEBLUE. He's obviously on the right path!
Gerald has an unique and wonderful Web site. Appropriate for it's content. So useful it's artistic! Another example of why stereotypes fail. Some Philistines DO have home pages worthy of emulation.
I investigated some sites purporting to be authorities on web standards and found them using tables for layout, for example, http://www.webstandards.com. Other sites, however, were trueblue, http://www.alistapart.com. When I scanned the source code at http://www.w3c.org, I was pleasantly surprised to find it wasn't laid out with tables. It doesn't make any difference who's example the club follows as long as you live up to your potential.
I'd like to design a three column layout that collapses as gracefully as Gerald's ethereal.com.
handuma