If you’ve ever been asked “but why is a CSS-based layout better?” and didn’t have a good answer ready, this is a post you have to read. Matt Jurmann on Chromatic Sites gives us Thirteen Reasons Why CSS is Superior to Tables in Website Design. Excellent post with thirteen concrete reasons why you should design your next site using CSS.

Jeff Atwood has an excellent post on the importance of UI-Driven Development. If you haven’t heard of this before, this is a good article to check out. It has plenty of links to supporting arguments and explanations about why you should develop the user interface of your application first.