Objectives: In this module the student will

1. design a page with tables
2. insert and edit tables using templates
3. insert and align items in a table
4. investigate the AP_div
5. use a preformatted layout to organize a web page.

Many new web page designers who know something about page layout think that frames are The Answer to all page design issues. They're not, and neither are tables. However, frames and tables can be effective means to organizing text and graphics in a way that "plain HTML" cannot. They're also very challenging to construct in "plain HTML," so a web page program like Dreamweaver is almost essential from this point forward.

cell

one portion or square of a table

row

the horizontal organization of cells in a table

column

the vertical organization of cells in a table

cell padding

the pixels that are added to the cell's interior dimensions to create a margin around the cell's contents

cell spacing

the pixels that are added between the cells' exterior walls

AP elements

An AP element (absolutely positioned element) is an HTML page element—specifically, a div tag, or any other tag—that has an absolute position assigned to it. AP elements can contain text, images, or any other content that you can place in the body of an HTML document.