Paul Hammond's thoughtful letter to "tabless recoders" -- those who redo table-based sites in CSS -- is the best thing we've read this week. Paul makes the important argument that designers who have had their sites redone will feel far from flattered, even insulted. But the piece makes its most meaningful point near the end:
There's one other little thing: CSS can do so much more than tables ever could, and your work is showing none of this. In fact, it's hinting at the opposite, that CSS doesn't give us any new toys to play with and people can probably get away without learning it, as long as nobody looks at the source.
Paul's right; it's the original CSS projects, like the CSS Zen Garden, that spread unstoppably through the community, inspiring and challenging scores of designers. And providing inspiration is what anyone claiming to be an ambassador for CSS should be doing.