I've heard you shouldn't use tables in your landing pages.. Anybody know the logic behind this? I build my LP's in photoshop and its way easier to slice them up with the slice tool and then just save it as html..
What am I missing here?
never heard of that before... did they say why you shouldn't use tables? I personally use div's and css and not tables, but I don't know why you "shouldn't" never heard anyone say that before.
Tables have become less used mainly because of CSS and the flexibility of divs, not to mention the code being nicer to deal with. With divs you can set the size, positions, style and various other properties via CSS which allows you to make quite intricate containers of content that are far more painful to do with tables. Tables still have their place though, especially when dealing with cross-browser compatibility.
In the past the worst thing with tables, for me, was the tables not constraining to the exact sizes you wanted, giving gaps appearing between image blocks depending on the browser. That and one cell might change size for some dumb reason and it kills your entire table and the layout.
A better way IMO would be to slice your image and save various parts then make the layout in something like WYSIWYG Web Builder and actually use text where text is required, use CSS for positioning things, etc. Will reduce size of the lander anyway.