Creating a forum application

Hi Everyone,

I am creating a forum application, like this very forum. I think I can create the forum using CSS, with no tables - but should I use tables???? Forum applications, by their very nature display information in a tabular fashion. However, I think I can write the code without using tables.

For example, the area of each post that displays user name, number of posts, avatar etc. can be floated over to the left, with the main message area over to the right etc. etc.

What do people think??? I like the idea of an elegant CSS design, but are tables more appropriate in this instance???

Cheers!