Do you think so. Ive heard that all the major browsers nowadays display layers pretty similarly and gone are the days when you designed for Internet Explorer and the layers looked totally misplaced in Netscape - Am I right on this one? Also, Ive read that layers are a bad idea for accessibility on the web, and therefore tables are better because screen readers dont like reading layers. CSS is the main buzzword these days, would this in combination with layers be the best way to design web pages?
Define "layer." The only reason I ask you to do this is because I think it is one of the most misused and vague terms in Web design. If you're talking about the NS4.x proprietary <layer> tag from the mid-late 90s that no one ever supported, then yes, I agree it's a bad idea to use it. But assuming that's not what you're talking about, please elaborate! (regardless of your definition of "layer," no, tables are not optimal for screenreaders with the exception of presenting tabular data, but we'll get to that in a bit.)