When you stack your Web site in tables like this, it gives your visitors something to look at while the rest of your page loads. Notice, for instance, as my reading club site loads, you can read about the current book while the upcoming books are being loaded. Things Fast dropdown and Search field. This allows visitors who know exactly what they are looking for to make their selection and get going even before the full site appears. Second, you see the left menu appear.
Visitors can peruse what is available on the site while the body is loading.
Third, the body appears which completes the loading of the site. This can easily occur in tables with unequal rows or columns. Explorer is much more tolerant of incorrect table syntax than Netscape. To find the problem, copy your HTML code into a new file and then remove all other code piece by piece until you only have only the table tags left. The error should then become apparent.