CSS'r learning how to code using tables again

[dannyh]

Hi everyone

It looks very promising that this week I will be entering a new job where I will be in charge of a website for a very well funded startup company.

This company is set to really go big once they officialy launch in a few months, and I will be brought on to get their web presence up to snuff.

Currently they have a website, built on a CMS that I am not familiar with (pretty complicated, from a small local development firm). The layout is all messy tables, that I'm pretty sure dreamweaver generated.

Until I get familiar with the job and my reponsibilities I will need to work around the table code.

In all honesty... I don't even know if I could put together a layout using tables anymore.

I barely knew how to lay a website out using tables when I started using CSS. Its been a long time now and I have a really hard time wrapping my head around the old way of doing things.

How should I approach this? How can I figure out all those tables until I am familiar enough to propose a re-coding into CSS?

I am going to do my best at proposing the idea of myself re-coding the site before launch. But for the first few weeks I want to just get familiar with the territory.

Any ideas?

Thanks