Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 On Demand

8. Creating Page Layouts Using Tables

What You’ll Do

Work with Tables

Switch Between Table Modes

Draw a Table in Layout Mode

Modify a Table in Layout Mode

Change Layout Table Properties

Add Spacer Images

Remove Spacer Images

Set Column Widths

Insert a Table in Standard Mode

Create a Nested Table

Add Columns or Rows to Tables

Split and Merge Cells

Add Content into a Table

Format Tables

Format Cells

Use a Tracing Image

Set Layout Mode Preferences

Introduction

Tables serve an important place in design; they allow you to precisely position text graphics, and objects on a Web page. Without tables, information would simply stack up on the page, and based on the width and height of the visitor’s browser window, would reformat on the fly.

Although ...