Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tableless web design" in English language version.
Microsoft Office FrontPage was released as a bundle of the 1997 version of the Microsoft Office, it was the first time that a robust, commercial HTML WYSIWYG editor-and-publisher was available for every person to use... When a webpage built out of the WYSIWYG MS FrontPage software would run with a backend FPSE in place it would enjoy the full strength that a technologist could possibly build by writing HTML code from scratch. Web designers no longer needed a technical understanding of HTML to build web pages.
...on top of the organizational advantages described above, the browser has less code to download. On heavily designed sites, or sites with hundreds of pages or more, this reduced download time can have a significant impact both on the user experience, and on your bandwidth costs.
Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly.
Use style sheets to control layout and presentation.