HTML - Table / Forum Coding Help

Any body got any tips on what to use to code to develope aa forum. I have been doing basic coding and want to know if anybody has any ideas or tips or is html the wrong system to code in?

Hello everyone, !

Im trying to create a new area in a forum for advertising and so on.
I use phpbb scripts that use stylesheets and html so not sure where to go for this help.

I have a site which you can see a jpeg he



now I want to change it to this:



any help or suggestion on where to start on this would be terrific?

Hello, I'm a newbie to these sorts of things. I'm also not sure what the technical jargon is for this so please bare with me.

What I want to achieve is to have the sitemenu part stretch across the entire table ending with the image tags (visually I want the sitemenu part to end with rounded edges which I made as an image). Is this even possible? I am not sure how to accomplish this. At the moment whilst the end image caps the sitemenu column, it does not stretch to the end of the rest of the table and the beginning image is hanging out at the very start where I want it to sit, but sitemenu does not reach it. I thought it was a problem with my colspan but touching it just destroys the entire thing.

For further clarification here is what it looks like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...arghtables.jpg

And here is what I WANT it to look like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ouldbenice.jpg

Here is the current code that I have:

Code:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="90%">

<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="sitetitle"><img src="banner.jpg"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="emptyrow"></td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td width="15" valign="top"><img src="left.jpg" width="15" height="53" border="0"></td>



<td colspan="3" id="sitemenu">Hello</td>



<td valign="top" width="15"><img src="right.jpg" width="15" height="53" 

border="0"></td>
</tr>


<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="emptyrow"></td>
</tr>



<tr>



<td id="hmenu" valign="top">

<p>Stuff</p>

      </td>

<td id="emptycolumn"></td>

      <td id="content" valign="top">

<p>Stuff.</p>

      </td>


      <td id="emptycolumn"></td>


      <td id="vmenu" valign="top">

<p>Stuff.</p>

      </td>
</tr>

<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="emptyrow"></td>
</tr>



<tr>
      <td colspan="5" id="sitecredits">Credits</td>
</tr>

</table>

Thank you for the help!

Hello,

I just recently started "cutting up" a website layout in Photoshop and coding it in Dreamweaver. Though I am aware that CSS would be best for doing this, I am still choosing to use a table for the layout.

My question is, what is the proper way of hand coding a table? Mind you, this is a fairly complex table with many rows and columns and cells of all kinds of sizes. I used Photoshop to export the code and then went in and changed what I needed to. Photoshop uses spacer gif's in their table code. I'd like to try hand coding the table so that I don't have to use spacer gif's and then I'll be able to edit the table later on, more easily (to change the bottom layout, but keep top navigation on all pages.) Right now, with the spacer gif's I can't add any cells without the whole layout falling apart. I'm just looking for good code for building complex tables (coding by hand).

Thanks!


Here's a link to the site I'm working on:
http://www.matthewpavkov.com/dtim/index.html

Is there a place where I can get an HTML script for a free premade forum for my site?