The following are a few tips and tricks picked up along the way. Some from professionals in the field others from the many books you can purchase. Many of these will help you with design issues.

1) Extra returns. Instead of a series of <br> tags try using several <p>&nbsp;</p>. This will better hold the space, even in an older browsers.

2) Layout and tables. If you haven't been told, tables allow more design capabilities. A table allows more than the usual one column of text. It permits images and text in several columns!

3) Tables allow sliced images to be pieced together again.

4) 2 or more columns of text. If you have 2 or more columns of text, one of them should be links for navigation. This design theory has come about through common usage by the average internet user.

5) Table height. Table height is rarely set. The content of a table will set the height for you. This also permits the Cellpadding and Cellspacing attributes to show more readily when used.

6) Cellpadding and Cellspacing. Use the Cellpadding and Cellspacing attribute of the <table> tag to help create more White Space in your design and layout.

7) Image loading. You can improve the speed of your page loading by using the width and height attributes of the <img> tag. This outlines the size of the image for the browser. The browser will continue loading the rest of the page while downloading the image. The browser usually stops at the image until it is finished displaying.