Having read the book (Designing with web standards), wideplace has had a thorough makeover. As the last of my primary sites to lose tables it has also benefitted from the understanding gleaned from concepts such as ‘semantic markup’ and separation of presentational markup. There’s still some fine tuning to do and one two more pages to add in, but the basic site is looking good.
Note: I’ve now added in the Archives page, placed a link to the RSS feed on the home page, and added some ‘you are here’ colour identification to the navigation bar.