This is by no means an end all be all guide to making Joomla 100% tabless or 100% validated, but it will help you find which files are being used for which component, where to find them for editing purposes and will give quick guidelines as to which tags to remove and which to replace.
Tables have been known to increase load time and increase files size and is therefore frowned upon in web design. This does not mean tables cannot be used, it is just a warning that table dependent designs are clunky and slower to load.
Using an HTML editor explore to this directory with in your root folder installation:
root/Components/Com_Conent/views/
With in this folder there are 5 folders: archive, article, category, frontpage, and section. With in these folders are the files that render the basic components of Joomla 1.5.
(Before you begin to edit these files be sure to back up a copy!)
Here are some quick guidelines while searching these pages.
Of course these are just guidelines the above tips are not full-proof. The code must still be sifted and proper css classes and id's must be declared.
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