Designing with HTML Tables

The following are usefull skills to have when designing Web pages using HTML tables in Visual Studio 2005:

1. Insert table
2. Using solid color borders
3. Drag table borders to resize
4. Select entire table
5. Insert rows and columns using keyboard
6. Aligning cell contents horizontally
7. Aligning cell contents vertically
8. Merging columns and rows
9. Inserting & removing hard returns within cells

Additional Design tips:

1. Cell padding & cell spacing
2. Test the page using at least two browsers
3. Using percentages rather than pixels for widths
4. Not using widths & heights at all
5. Visual Studio's default cell widths
6. Insert tables within other table cells
7. Create horizontal & vertical bars with joined cells & background colors