The modern way to design sites is using “web standards”, separating content from style by using Cascading Style Sheets to dictate the appearance of the pages, rather than using “old” nested table layouts or just adding nbsps one ofter the other.

The 4 essentials practices of modern web design are:

1. Standards compliance code
2. Accessible code
3. … and some other two that I don’t remember right now, but the following graph will show us the core practices and time breakdown of modern web design.