I just started learning HTML (thanks much to LISSA). This might be a silly question but how do you center text within a table? Also, is there a way to create a table where the left side always stays regardless of clicking onto a link to other pages on your site?
I would appreciate any help!

in your <td> tag you can add the align attribute like so:

<td align="center" ...your other attributes here...>

or you can put <center> ...your text/content here... </center> between the <td> and </td> tags.

for your second question, you can put an iframe in one cell of the table and target your links to it, or get rid of the tables and use frames instead:
http://www.lissaexplains.com/frames.shtml

Thanks so much, it worked!