ost professional-quality web sites today are built on table code. Everyone agrees that they shouldn't be, and that style sheets will replace them. Sometime.

Until then, web authors need strong table coding skills to create effective designs that display well in any browser.

What follows is a look at the attributes used in table coding, with some examples and discussion of how they affect web page designs.

Comments welcomed -

Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
nvwillj@nvcc.edu

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1. Introduction, objectives, philosophy

2. Basics review - simple table code

3. WIDTH - define your own widths for table and columns

4. VALIGN - Keep your table elements in line

5. BORDER - Use borderless tables for alignment

6. BGCOLOR - Add colors to tables or cells

7. CELLSPACING - Give your colored cells a seamless look

8. CELLPADDING - Something to tweak if things don't look right

9. ALIGN - Floating tables

10. Table manners - Do's and don'ts

11. Editors - Comparison of table-coding in AOLPress, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and Netscape Page Composer

12. Summary, with all 7 attributes on one page

13. Exercises