Using Tables to Do Page Layout

This is a very simple trick that many people don't learn immediately when building tables. Leave the border on until you are ready to show the page to someone. The border attribute makes it easy to see where you have cells that are empty or are spanning too many columns, etc. Changing that border="0" to border="1" can save you hours of fiddling with the table.

• The Easy Way to Create Complex Tables for Page Layout
• Map Out the Design
• Draw Your Page on the Graph Paper
• Create a grid of your page elements
• Examine the structure of your page
• Translate your grid to HTML
• Turn on and off the table border