Table smart :

In browser table don’t show up on a page until the content with in the tables have been downloaded , making a page seem slow . Avoid nested tables and long vertical tables . Instead , stack tables on the top of each other pages then appear to load faster as each table shown up faster . In this context , its better to place your navigational links horizontally towards the top as the will show up before most of the rest of the page . Keep the most important links at the top and the rest on the left , are keep top-level selection on the top and the subsection on the left .

To make a table stand out on a page , use a border around it rather than a fixed image , that is fixed in size . Nest the table with in a single cell table with a cell padding of one pixel ( or more for thinker border) and a bckground of the color you want for the border .