When tables were first integrated into HTML, they were only used to present tabular data. With FrontPage 2002 web hosting it was quickly figured out that tables could be also used to create page layouts. So, if you use FrontPage and you find yourself looking at a blank task pane, you should understand that using the task pane isn’t the only way to create page layouts. In fact, you will be much happier with the results you get from using tables to create your pages. In fact, if you look at really nice web sites that were created using FrontPage, you will probably find that they were created using tables. Using tables to create layouts is also a great way to organize your entire site, which will make it much easier for viewers to navigate.

Creating tables and using them to create a layout is a hard concept for anyone to understand. This is especially true if you haven’t ever worked with tables, or understand them to be a bunch of numbers on an excel spread sheet. Again, this is because tables started out as just a way to organize numbers on a spread sheet so they could be added up for accounting purposes. It took some really innovative web developers to figure out that you could put any information into a spread sheet and use it to line up text and graphics just like you could numbers and come up with a much more professional looking web page. The great thing about tables as well is that the information is so organized that it can be imported into any of your other pages or any other documents for that matter. Tables can also work with the dynamic web templates in FrontPage 2003 to produce dynamic web page templates that save a lot of time when it comes to creating new pages. Tables also save you from learning so much HTML, JavaScript, and other coding that you may not have time study.

The easiest way to create tables is to go to Table in the Insert menu. You can also import a table or draw a table of your own. Pick the page where you want the table inserted and you have a table on the page. That’s the really short version of how to create a table, but as you know by now, FrontPage 2002 web hosting menus pretty much walk you through anything. What we will talk about is what kind of table you want to create.

Once you click on Create a Table, FrontPage is going to ask you some questions about what kind of table you want to create. It will ask you how many rows you want and how many columns you want in your table. Columns and rows are made up of boxes or cells. Going across the table, each box or cell represents a column. Going up and down the table, each box or cell represents a row. So, FrontPage is asking you how many boxes you want going across and how many boxes you want going down. Now, if you are thinking about filling the boxes with accounting numbers, this will be confusing. What you want to think about is layout. We can’t show you any illustrations here, but the best way to think about how many columns and rows you want it to go to a website that you like and break it down into boxes or cells. There may be a box with a logo in it and a box with some descriptive text, and some boxes with links to other pages, but you can see how they have used boxes or cells to super organize the page. All you have to do is count how many cells there should be down and across, and that is how many cells you need for your table.

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