Preparing for a redesign -- looking for structure suggestions

[cieanfie]

Hey all,

I'm working on a redesign of a site and am just looking for suggestions on what kind of setup I should look at.

The current site is built primarily on (gasp) tables... so my plan is to replace that setup with CSS, but I'm also wondering what the best way to build a kind of template.

The current site basically has a main page with an iframe smacked into the middle and all the content loaded into it... it's nice because the content within the frame doesn't need to be dolled up much. With newer sites I've worked on, I've switched to loading the content via AJAX -- but that obviously comes with its limitations.

Bearing in mind my unfamiliarity with a CSS-based layout and what I've said above -- how might you suggest I go about this design?

Thanks in advance

[Website Builder]

I suggest that you use any CMS to help you out with this. If not, how about a site builder?

[aditd]

I also suggest using a cms or a blog platform. You won't have to waste time by reinventing the wheel ... and also you will find a lot of free templates and plugins available ( so you won't have to do it ).