how do you know how big to make the cell padding, cell spacing and width ad all that? how big is one, two and three???? how would u usue tables to make a webpage layout?????? thanks...

You would just have to fiddle about, chaning the attributes of each one until it looks like you want it to.

Chris

how would u usue tables to make a webpage layout??????

If you want a site with, for example, a header at the top, a nav bar down the left and the content down the right, you would go:

<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">header image or whatever goes in here</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>nav bar stuff goes in here</td>
<td>main content goes in here</td>
</tr>
</table>

you can also do this using frames (which means that you will be able to scroll down different frames seperately so the nav bar would always be on the left of the screen and the header would always be at the top of the screen), but it is harder and there are a couple of problems with this approach too.