I have some simple examples of what I think you are talking about on my (somewhat amature) site. It's not much, nor is it by any means finished. It's just a few things in my portfolio. The color photography page here is a decent example (i think) of what you are talking about. The pages use a layout with tables inside tables to get everything to stay as close to the way I want it without resorting to using frames, java, flash, etc... I am very big on simple accesible web design, although I did use a few png files just because some of the attributes are a bit better than other types of image files.

//matt