Custom Post Title Placement

I want to play with the post title and date/byline placement to give myself a little more design flexibility. Here's a good example:

http://www.deliciousdays.com/archive...vian-memories/

Obviously, I know how to tweak the style of the font size, background color, etc. but how do you place it in line with the text like that? Any ideas? Maybe use tables for the function call-outs?