I HATE CSS: Help me out

[Halx]

Dialog Box Test <-- I suck

This is my test page. I'm basically adapting a CSS tutorial on dialog bubbles to something that resembles a menu. I'm trying to do 2 things here:

1. I am trying to create a fixed height for each bubble. So far I've only been able to adjust the height based on the content.
2. I am trying to format the content within the bubble so that a 50x50 thumbnail appears on the left, with left-justified text to the right of it.

I want to say that I can get this done in 2 minutes with TABLES, but noooo everyone wants to use CSS these days. Well fuck CSS. Its a horrible standard with convoluted methods of content organization. It needs some serious revision or a complete replacement.

In the meantime, I appreciate any help I can get.

[Vigilante]

You could do table parameters in CSS, right?

I'm no expert, but I reverse-engineer everything. I would say if you know a site that has an example, use the web developer extension in FF and get any info you like on the formating, CSS etc.

For instance, on my site:

/* table inside the the td that holds the block title */

.blockhead {
  color: #FFF;
  font-size: 10px;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: left;
  height: 25px;
  width: 162px;
}

.blockheadbg {

	width: 162px;
	background: #242424 url(../images/BlockHeadBG.jpg);
}

/* table that holds the content in blocks */

.blockcontent {
  width: 152px;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  padding: 4px;
  background: #2C2C2C;
}

The way I see it, use both