Accomplish as much as you possibly can each week, adding depth and new writing balanced with your tackling of new technical hurdles and development of graphics. Create a background color or wallpaper and effective color scheme for your site. Be prepared to discuss problems and opportunities for using graphics and visuals as part of your interface. Lemay, 291-333 creating and using tables. Tables provide a way to organize text and graphics in flexible ways and for building graphical menus.
Tables provide true layout capability.
PageMaker, the desktop publishing package that allows extremely intricate layouts, now has an HTML tool that converts its layouts to Web pages. Yes, tables can be used to create ordinary tables of the boxed spread sheet variety, but if you make the lines and boxes invisible, you can create columns and arrangements of graphics and text of considerable intricacy. In effect, you can 'fool' the browser into complex multi-column layouts. Review your site for the possibilities of tables and build at least one or two to get a feel for these sometimes tricky HTML elements. One very simple example would be a table navigation menu that you could use at the bottom of your pages.