I feel it would be helpful to answer the most common questions and problems here, as well as to provide tips and tricks for producing tables that are streamlined, sensible, and bug-free. You might be surprised to learn that it has to do with how you spatially design them. Instead of planning from the horizontal layout of a design, study the vertical layout and plan your tables accordingly. The heart and soul of streamlined table design lies in looking first at the vertical, not the horizontal layout. Rows create the horizontal structures within a table.
Cells provide vertical control.
In fact, table cells themselves can be considered the core of table layouts for Web design. After all, they control a great deal in terms of structure and display. The navigation is made up of five graphics. Each graphic is above the next. Many authors' instinct would be to put each of these graphics into an individual row.