I have a friend of mine that does webpage design for a living, now what I've beeen reading on the forums is that CSS is the "in" thing, however, she says she still uses tables for some of her web designs, and it matters not what method you use, as long as it accomplishes the task.

Is this true?

Is this true?

That is completely debatable. Some designers just refuse to change their ways and come up to modern web design methods.

You might want to read this... and let her read it too !!
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html - "Why Tables For Layout is Stupid"

From a purely maintenance standpoint, a properly marked-up site using CSS will be far, far less maintenance than the old nested tables method. That in and of itself is worth the 'fuss' of learning CSS and semantic markup.