In blog posts, are table based layouts ok?

I’ve obviously got alot of work to do in the learning CSS arena still but as I try to do various things within a blog post (ie. Over on my fatboydiaries stats page OR the bottom of my about page, the ‘Other Webness’ section) it seems like creating a table is the only way to do it.

Am I off here? If so, what’s the proper way?

The CSS guys have struck the fear of tables into me so I understand why they suck but is there a way around it in these examples?

BTW, my CMS is Wordpress and no I don’t use the WYSIWYG editor either…help!

[tags]CSS, Wordpress, tables, layouts[/tags]