If so, fine. On the Web, this is less of a problem, because by the time you take 640 pixels and subtract a scroll bar or two and a generous margin, you're just a little wider than the perfect width for a column. While a newspaper might need 6 or so columns to keep things readable, a Web page can look fine with just one. A very popular layout is to have one medium-wide column of body text, with a sidebar containing related information on the left, right or both. Alas, our only tool for creating columns is a flawed one - tables .
Many Web sites choose to use columns, and tables are the way to do it for now.
The problem with tables is that unlike with desktop-publishing software packages, you can't make text automatically flow from one column to the next. This means that you have to figure out exactly where in the text you want each column to end. If you'd like your text to line up perfectly with graphics or other elements in another column, you are out of luck. Live with it. Another headache involves paragraph justification.