take a look at
http://www.csszengarden.com . The site is a simple html and all the design effects are made in CSS. In the right menu you have 8 another css look of the same html file. It's quite nice. You can find tutorials there as well. So yes, the new goal is, i think, to make a html only with the content...no tables at all, no design element, and the look of the site to be made only in CSS. I work in csszengarden way right now so it is possible