Tables can not only be used to store data in the table form but can also be used to create a layout. You can combine columns or rows to make a header and a footer or one larger body. You can also use slicing in photoshop to create a smooth, seamless page layout. This is very helpful when trying to get rid of any unwanted white area around your table layout.
This website gives you a step by step on how to slice and optimize your images to use on the web.
This webpage is also a very helpful and easy to understand webpage to use for web slicing. It gives you helpful tools to use to get the job done quick and easy.
This gives you several differnt resources on compression and optimization, web tools, page layouts and slicing.
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